Famous quotes by Artists

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth, when all the world is new to it"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"In love, the one who runs away is the winner"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"Work cures everything"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way"

David Hockney, Artist

"Shadows, sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese, of course, never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny"

David Hockney, Artist

"But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it, of course, with a digital thing, but remember, in 1982, you couldn't"

David Hockney, Artist

"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I think of painting without subject matter as music without words"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted"

Michelangelo, Artist

"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course"

Michelangelo, Artist

"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself"

Michelangelo, Artist

"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone"

Michelangelo, Artist

"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand"

Michelangelo, Artist

"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world"

Rene Magritte, Artist

"The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb"

Rene Magritte, Artist

"True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely"

Yoko Ono, Artist

"Art is my life and my life is art"

Yoko Ono, Artist

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