Famous quotes by Artists

"In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"What you see is what you see"

Frank Stella, Artist

"I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall"

Frank Stella, Artist

"When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill or the meat of the thing is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out"

Frank Stella, Artist

"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters"

Frank Stella, Artist

"I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you"

Frank Stella, Artist

"Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another"

Jim Dine, Artist

"I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece"

Jim Dine, Artist

"I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living"

Jim Dine, Artist

"When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves"

Gustave Courbet, Artist

"The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses"

Anselm Kiefer, Artist

"It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland"

Anselm Kiefer, Artist

"I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Here is a fear for me: I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"I'm interested in playing, not working"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"You come into the world alone, and you go out of the world alone, yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming"

Emily Carr, Artist

"I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born"

Emily Carr, Artist

"As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art"

Albrecht Durer, Artist

"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion"

Albrecht Durer, Artist

"On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"The task of the artist is to construct a new order of life"

El Lissitzky, Artist

"The book is a piece of architecture. The text forms the columns; the pages are the walls"

El Lissitzky, Artist

"The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures"

Wassily Kandinsky, Artist

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