Famous quotes by Artists

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible"

Balthus, Artist

"A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"To be an artist, you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder"

M. C. Escher, Artist

"Lack of charisma can be fatal"

Jenny Holzer, Artist

"We adore chaos because we love to produce order"

M. C. Escher, Artist

"Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?"

M. C. Escher, Artist

"There is always room for coincidence"

Alva Noto, Artist

"We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us"

Trey Parker, Artist

"Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican"

Trey Parker, Artist

"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more"

Marc Chagall, Artist

"You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life"

Marc Chagall, Artist

"I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid"

Trey Parker, Artist

"If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep"

Marc Chagall, Artist

"I will throw all my best efforts into it: my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there"

Frank Miller, Artist

"I am just trying to find a way to make pictures"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither"

Jasper Johns, Artist

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