Famous quotes by Artists

"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

"Everything starts from a dot"

Wassily Kandinsky, Artist

"Painters must speak through paint, not through words"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle"

Balthus, Artist

"The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself"

Caspar David Friedrich, Artist

"Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it"

Trey Parker, Artist

"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid"

Jenny Holzer, Artist

"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough"

M. C. Escher, Artist

"Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"The most profound things are inexpressible"

Jenny Holzer, Artist

"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites"

Marc Chagall, Artist

"Everyone is, of course, free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?"

Theodore Gericault, Artist

"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour"

Theodore Gericault, Artist

"I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings"

Tom Wesselmann, Artist

"Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months"

Tom Wesselmann, Artist

"As far as I am concerned, the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials"

Benjamin Haydon, Artist

"Our work is a scream of freedom"

Christo, Artist

"It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years"

Christo, Artist

"I don't paint to live, I live to paint"

Willem de Kooning, Artist

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