Artist Quotes - Page 8

• Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

  Skitch Henderson

  Different, Wells, Courses

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• I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Hair, Work Out

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• The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, Home, House

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• I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

  Isabel Bishop

  Want, Wanted, Woman Artist

  "The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street". Book by by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273, 1992.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, God

  Quoted in Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso (1964)

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• The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

  Martin Scorsese

  Giants, Fit, Used

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Oct 14, 2013

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• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

  Twyla Tharp

  Music, Dance, Running

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• I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Thinking, Doe

  Andy Warhol, Mark Francis, Mattjis Visser, Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2004). “Andy Warhol: the late work”, Prestel Publishing

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• What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

  M. C. Escher

  Life, Beautiful, Giving

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• It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Mean, Differences

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

  Robert Hughes

  Doubt, Inspirational Art, Great Art

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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Architecture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Creativity, Expression

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Patterns, Recognition

  Dialogues (1954) (entry for 10 June 1943)

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• Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

  Frida Kahlo

  Expression, Painting, Surrealist

  Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo (2008). “Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'”

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• To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Courage, Art

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• Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.3148, e-artnow

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• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Pain, Book

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Art, Essentials, Novelty

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• Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Grandchildren

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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• All Children are Artists

  Pablo Picasso

  Children

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• What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Imagination, Firsts

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• Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Hands

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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