Famous quotes by Artists

"In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"Exactitude is not truth"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"I have always tried to hide my efforts, and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime, which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"I have been no more than a medium, as it were"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection, and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era"

David Hockney, Artist

"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space"

David Hockney, Artist

"Well, you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft"

David Hockney, Artist

"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work"

David Hockney, Artist

"There are enough no smoking places now"

David Hockney, Artist

"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different"

David Hockney, Artist

"I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now"

David Hockney, Artist

"I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles"

David Hockney, Artist

"But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean, I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years"

David Hockney, Artist

"Yes, I did, I mean, I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting"

David Hockney, Artist

"I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century"

David Hockney, Artist

"A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light"

David Hockney, Artist

"Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean, you do"

David Hockney, Artist

"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life!"

David Hockney, Artist

"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus"

David Hockney, Artist

"But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well"

David Hockney, Artist

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