Famous quotes by Artists

"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating"

Henry Flynt, Artist

"Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together"

Kurt Schwitters, Artist

"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see"

Henri Rousseau, Artist

"My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back"

Francis Picabia, Artist

"Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

"I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted"

Mark Rothko, Artist

"Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock!"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, he just goes on trying other things"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned, there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow, the coup de grace, for the painter as well as for the picture"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not?"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"One must act in painting as in life, directly"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

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