Famous Artist Quotes - Page 6

• Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Eye

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Brain, Intuition

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE

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• Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• A line is a dot that went for a walk.

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Art, Drawing

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

  Henri Matisse

  Cute, Art, Paint

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• I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

  Joan Miro

  Art, Color, Trying

  "Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews". Book by Joan Miró, editing by M.Rowell, Thames and Hudson, 1987.

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• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Art, Moving

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Business, Thinking

  Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) (1975) ch. 10

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• One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Courage, Art, Capacity

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• For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

  Georges Rouault

  Art, Night, Laughing

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• The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

  Paul Strand

  Art, Feet, World

  Catherine Duncan, Paul Strand, Aperture Foundation (1994). “Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait”

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• Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character because they want to win. They want their views to prevail.

  Dave Hickey

  Smart, Character, Artist

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

  Janelle Monae

  Artist, Makeup, Hair

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• When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

  Henry Flynt

  New York, Insecure, Artist

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• I am a famous artist. I make millions. But I frequently see debut shows of unknown artists with prices that are double of mine... what they're really doing is barely getting by and helping me sell 1,000 paintings a year effortlessly, because they make my paintings look like such a bargain. Thank you to all the egotistical art students!

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Years, Looks

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• From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Artist, Signatures, Want

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Alive, Irony

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• There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort.

  Mark Matousek

  Artist, Achievement, Effort

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• I believe your success is based off what your goals are. Are you trying to feed your family or have plaques on the wall and be broke? In that case, I think the game is in a better place. We have all heard of famous artists who are broke. Then we know of artists who may have had only a song or two on radio, but have a million or two dollars off that quick come up.

  Yo Gotti

  Song, Wall, Believe

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• A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.

  Bob Colacello

  Artist, People, Bed

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

  Rokia Traore

  Art, Sometimes, Very Famous

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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