Famous quotes by Artists

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

Georgia O'Keeffe

"You can't make people respond"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

Arthur Boyd

"I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

Arthur Boyd

"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

Arthur Boyd

"We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment, and hope that the message will get through"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

Arthur Boyd

"If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

Arthur Boyd

"If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

Arthur Boyd

"Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

Arthur Boyd

"War is over if you want it"

Yoko Ono, Artist

Yoko Ono

"Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age"

Paul Klee, Artist

Paul Klee

"Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter"

Paul Klee, Artist

Paul Klee

"The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in indulging in was gone"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

Robert Rauschenberg

"What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house"

Edward Hopper, Artist

Edward Hopper

"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method"

Edward Hopper, Artist

Edward Hopper

"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

Andy Goldsworthy

"I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

Andy Goldsworthy

"I am not a performer, but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

Andy Goldsworthy

"People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

Andy Goldsworthy

"I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

Andy Goldsworthy

"It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

Andy Goldsworthy

"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores"

Andy Warhol, Artist

Andy Warhol

"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"

Andy Warhol, Artist

Andy Warhol

"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

Andy Warhol

"Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who, on reaching one goal, sets a higher one"

Ralph Ransom, Artist

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

Paul Gauguin

"I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"What you see is what you see"

Frank Stella, Artist

Frank Stella

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

Robert Smithson, 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

Frank Stella

"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

Frank Stella

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