Famous quotes by Artists

Small: For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces
Bridget Riley
"For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces"
Bridget Riley, Artist
Small: Art is never finished, only abandoned
Leonardo da Vinci
"Art is never finished, only abandoned"
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist
Small: Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist
Small: Water is the driving force of all nature
Leonardo da Vinci
"Water is the driving force of all nature"
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist
Small: My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace
"My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace"
Gilbert Hernandez, Artist
Small: We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and de
"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country"
Gilbert Hernandez, Artist
Small: I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relative
"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
Small: It wasnt until school that we realised that we were abnormal
"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal"
Gilbert Hernandez, Artist
Small: From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline
"From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline"
Robert Smithson, Artist
Small: The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture
Ben Nicholson
"The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture"
Ben Nicholson, Artist
Small: I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction
Ben Nicholson
"I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction"
Ben Nicholson, Artist
Small: The latest page Ive been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Whos indebted to whom,
Ben Nicholson
"The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that"
Ben Nicholson, Artist
Small: The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of
"The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next"
Christo, Artist
Small: Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have l
Henry Ossawa Tanner
"Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior"
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist
Small: I will preach with my brush
Henry Ossawa Tanner
"I will preach with my brush"
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist
Small: You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while li
"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming"
Emily Carr, Artist
Small: Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to 95, there is an entire book abo
"Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian"
Christo, Artist
Small: I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a differen
"I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born"
Emily Carr, Artist
Small: Our work is a scream of freedom
"Our work is a scream of freedom"
Christo, Artist
Small: And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, v
"And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified"
Christo, Artist
Small: I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace
Ad Reinhardt
"I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace"
Ad Reinhardt, Artist
Small: Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, its not usually a site that I get to spend that
"Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something"
Todd McFarlane, Artist
Small: It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories
"It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days"
Todd McFarlane, Artist
Small: The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people runnin
"The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it"
Don Bluth, Artist
Small: I still do some inking here and there and Ive actually got a book that Im going to ink entirely
"I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely"
Todd McFarlane, Artist
Small: Were waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will
"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will"
Don Bluth, Artist
Small: Im saddened to see that everyones pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it cant be one or th
"I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz"
Don Bluth, Artist
Small: I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gol
"I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars"
Mort Walker, Artist
Small: The will to label will always prevail over whats being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or unde
"The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding"
Boyd Rice, Artist
Small: How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I dont like it
Gerald Scarfe
"How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it"
Gerald Scarfe, Artist