Quotes by Artists

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all. Leonardo da Vinci
Memory Three First Smell Others Sight Touch Mental Powers Well Hearing Covetousness Intellect Taste Senses Cannot Sensual Four Desire Two
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. Leonardo da Vinci
Truth Darkness Light Doubt Relation Bears Beyond Falsehood Same
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. Leonardo da Vinci
World Bird First Nest Shall Take Writings He Glory Amazement His Fame Human Whence Eternal Flight Filling Bringing
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. Leonardo da Vinci
Work Genius Men Active Lofty Most Least Doing
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. Leonardo da Vinci
Food Memory Eaten Absorb Study Without Does Just Nourishment Zeal Appetite Assimilating Damage Tedious
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. Marc Chagall
Love Soul Marriage Will Made Think Once Once More Give More My Soul Adore Am Prove Theater Painter Two
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap. Marcel Duchamp
Art You Reality See Missing Exist Link Links Which Gap
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind. Marina Abramovic
Mind Awareness Society Universe Right Questions Disturbed Give Questions Artist Ask Function Elevate Right
You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral. Marina Abramovic
Death You Your Choreograph Funeral
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now. Marina Abramovic
Future Time Illusion Past Think About Only Exist Exists Now Present Here
I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure. Max Cannon
Smoking Pure Pleasure Messing Around Just Want Anyone
When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity. Maximillian Degenerez
You Mediocrity Back Excellence Had Go Taste Cannot
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. Michelangelo
Me Only Well Hand Chisel
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. Pablo Picasso
Abstract Art Art You Reality Remove Must Something Abstract Traces Always Afterwards Start
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. Pablo Picasso
Law He Inexorable Who Thinks
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. Pablo Picasso
Best Painting Make Comment Sculpture Painter
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. Pablo Picasso
Art Business People Make Mostly Who
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions. Paul Signac
Fight Will Anarchist Individuality Pictures His Official Conventions Against Create Who Painter
A painting that is well composed is half finished. Pierre Bonnard
Art Finished Half Painting Composed Well
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. Rene Magritte
Everything Hidden Hides See Another Always Want Thing
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. Rene Magritte
Art World Would Mystery Without Exist Which
People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity. Robert Rauschenberg
Time Me You Disappointment People First Every Too Every Time Out Run Idea Ideas Well First Place Limiting Curiosity Place Ask Turns Use Ever
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. Salvador Dali
Man Woman Poet First Idiot Young Rose Possibly Cheeks Obviously Repeat Young Woman Compare
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. Salvador Dali
Love Good Great You Respect Youth Society Lasting Kick Possess Give Good Thing Talent Great Talent Very Snob Order After Acquire Your Hard Growing Right Thing Early
Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Yayoi Kusama
Yourself Become Part Environment Forget Eternity Your
I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution. Yoko Ono
You Yourself Problem Better Calm Situation Think Solution Find Stay Stay Calm Tense Because Always Maybe Confront Might Should Ever Actually
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