Famous quotes by Artists

"My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it"

Kevyn Aucoin, Artist

"I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very, very sad situation"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"A kiss from my mother made me a painter"

Benjamin West, Artist

"Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present"

Edward Wadsworth, Artist

"I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked, the more the panorama unfolded"

Frederic Remington, Artist

"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth"

John Singer Sargent, Artist

"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"The older you get, the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"To draw you must close your eyes and sing"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... Even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"St. Michael's Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing"

John Dyer, Artist

"My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect"

John Dyer, Artist

"I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it: fresh, immediate, and sometimes shocking"

John Dyer, Artist

"I paint what I see, not what a camera would see"

John Dyer, Artist

"I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time"

John Dyer, Artist

"I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold"

John Dyer, Artist

"The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me"

John Dyer, Artist

"In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement"

John Dyer, Artist

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