Famous quotes by Artists

"I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole"

Barbara Hepworth, Artist

"We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from"

David Lloyd, Artist

"I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free"

David Lloyd, Artist

"To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind"

Agnes Martin, Artist

"Body experience... is the centre of creation"

Barbara Hepworth, Artist

"At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution"

Barbara Hepworth, Artist

"My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind"

Agnes Martin, Artist

"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait"

James Whistler, Artist

"If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible"

James Whistler, Artist

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision"

James Whistler, Artist

"I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it"

Keith Haring, Artist

"The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself, and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work"

Keith Haring, Artist

"I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere"

Philip Guston, Artist

"In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say"

John Hench, Artist

"Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed"

Corita Kent, Artist

"I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it"

John Chamberlain, Artist

"Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it"

John Chamberlain, Artist

"To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing"

Philip Guston, Artist

"The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing"

Marjane Satrapi, Artist

"Now, finally, has the elevator arrived? The stairs was about to become a personal inferno"

Anders Zorn, Artist

"I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that"

Aaron McGruder, Artist

"The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people"

Marjane Satrapi, Artist

"Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger"

Anders Zorn, Artist

"We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb"

Aaron McGruder, Artist

"Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers, too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. I had great satisfaction in doing that"

John Hench, Artist

"I was hired as a penciler"

Gil Kane, Artist

"All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time"

Gil Kane, Artist

"I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy"

Faith Ringgold, Artist

"Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face"

Faith Ringgold, Artist

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