Famous quotes by Artists

"Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose"

Donald Judd, Artist

"Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away"

Donald Judd, Artist

"I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality or general morality"

Donald Judd, Artist

"I pay a lot of attention to how things are done, and the whole activity of building something is interesting"

Donald Judd, Artist

"Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"Nature is never finished"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug, but I like slugs"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises"

Emily Carr, Artist

"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows"

Emily Carr, Artist

"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder"

Emily Carr, Artist

"Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence"

Albrecht Durer, Artist

"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory"

Edgar Degas, Artist

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see"

Edgar Degas, Artist

"Seeing is in itself a movement"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things"

Albrecht Durer, Artist

"Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ"

Albrecht Durer, Artist

"Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"I'm always thinking about what I might want to do next, but there's still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it"

Edgar Degas, Artist

"The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known"

El Lissitzky, Artist

"Art does not need us, and it never did"

El Lissitzky, Artist

"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"There is no must in art because art is free"

Wassily Kandinsky, Artist

"Through a painting we can see the whole world"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood"

Franz Marc, Artist

"On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul"

Wassily Kandinsky, Artist

"The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

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