Famous quotes by Artists

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality"

Yoko Ono, Artist

"Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will"

Paul Klee, Artist

"A drawing is simply a line going for a walk"

Paul Klee, Artist

"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

"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying"

John Berger, Artist

"Even in winter, an isolated patch of snow has a special quality"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time"

John Berger, Artist

"You begin with the possibilities of the material"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress"

John Berger, Artist

"There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events"

John Berger, Artist

"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream"

John Berger, Artist

"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored"

John Berger, Artist

"One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America, and then work"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface"

Edward Hopper, Artist

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

Edward Hopper, Artist

"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"In general, it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I like boring things"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have"

Andy Warhol, Artist

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