Famous quotes by Artists

"I think about my work every minute of the day"

Jeff Koons, Artist

"Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise"

Samuel Lover, Artist

"If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens"

Grandma Moses, Artist

"Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'Let's pray about this right now'"

Thomas Kinkade, Artist

"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams"

Giorgio de Chirico, Artist

"Animation had been done before, but stories were never told"

Marc Davis, Artist

"The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy"

Florence Scovel Shinn, Artist

"For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul"

Yves Klein, Artist

"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight"

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, Artist

"A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high"

George Catlin, Artist

"Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can"

Eugene Delacroix, Artist

"The best love affairs are those we never had"

Norman Lindsay, Artist

"Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order"

Maurice Denis, Artist

"Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future"

H. R. Giger, Artist

"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts"

Carl Barks, Artist

"My impression is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic, that it's harnessing the powers of your mind"

Boyd Rice, Artist

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"We don't grow older, we grow riper"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

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