Famous quotes by Artists

"And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso, which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I always work out of uncertainty, but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time, though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me"

Egon Schiele, Artist

"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact, I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind, and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized"

Benjamin Haydon, Artist

"I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil"

Benjamin Haydon, Artist

"Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal"

Egon Schiele, Artist

"Everything is dead while it lives"

Egon Schiele, Artist

"I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?"

Egon Schiele, Artist

"It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up. The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"I'm tired, but proud"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me"

Gustav Klimt, Artist

"If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock"

Gustav Klimt, Artist

"All art is erotic"

Gustav Klimt, Artist

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