Famous quotes by Artists

"A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it"

Corita Kent, Artist

"Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war"

Howard Finster, Artist

"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions"

Thomas Couture, Artist

"When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us"

Robert Crumb, Artist

"When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart"

Raoul Dufy, Artist

"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels"

Francisco de Goya, Artist

"In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them"

Maurice de Vlaminck, Artist

"I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music"

Shawn Colvin, Artist

"Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think"

Robert Henri, Artist

"My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details"

Joan Miro, Artist

"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look"

Chuck Close, Artist

"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it"

Dick Bruna, Artist

"Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience"

Dennis Muren, Artist

"I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized"

Alex Grey, Artist

"Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist"

Alfred Sisley, Artist

"Every man is an artist"

Joseph Beuys, Artist

"Blake is damned good to steal from"

Henry Fuseli, Artist

"I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed"

Gilbert Hernandez, Artist

"All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow"

Grant Wood, Artist

"A good artist has less time than ideas"

Martin Kippenberger, Artist

"I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing"

Art Spiegelman, Artist

"Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal"

Chris Ware, Artist

"Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it"

Otto Dix, Artist

"I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products"

Marcel Duchamp, Artist

"A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact, he creates new appearances of things"

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Artist

"What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal"

John Howe, Artist

"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart"

Mort Walker, Artist

"Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail"

Edouard Manet, Artist

"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will"

Don Bluth, Artist

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