Quotes by Artists

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park. Christo
City Park New Most Unusual York New York New York City Place Central Central Park
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. Chuck Close
You Define Parameters Never Anyone Capable Using Apply
I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing. Claude Monet
Time Weather Air Out Beach My Time Open Pass Go Fishing Heavy Boats Really
Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the tide at this moment is just as I need it for several motifs. This has bucked me up a bit. Claude Monet
Beautiful Day Me Finally Several Bit Sun Superb Beautiful Day Like Tide Without Up Just Stopping Worked Moment Here Need
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas. Edvard Munch
Life Own Live Remarkable Colors Been After Canvas Applied
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. Edvard Munch
Life Death Me Insanity My Life Followed Angels Throughout Attended Since Were Disease Cradle Then
If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean. Eileen Brennan
Laugh Ourselves Condition Going Human Human Condition Mean
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw. Emily Carr
Wonderful Raw Feel Canada
'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories. Florentijn Hofman
Life Impossible Moon Own Thinking Possible Dreaming About Laying True Bunker Stories Against Rabbit Creating
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. Frida Kahlo
Dreams Reality Thought Own My Own Never Surrealist Painted
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint. Georgia O'Keeffe
Myself Me People Own Say I Can See Individuality Know Most Concerned Closely Want Themselves Paint Helped Now Aware
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. Georgia O'Keeffe
Too Much Looking Enjoy Too About General Take Know Very Apart Them Much Paintings
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things. Gerhard Richter
Success Time Achievement Other Indefinite Variations More Uncertainty No Time Lead Boundless Like Names Concepts Qualities Concerns Ideologies Mastery Opinions Conducive May Themes Working Specialized Publicity Things
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values. Gilbert Baker
Depression You Lie Will Values Live Living Mess Up Send Warp Your
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. Giorgio de Chirico
Art Strange Men Innocence Distraction Net Wing Mysterious Like Common Which Fleeing Moments Butterflies Fatal
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. Hans Hofmann
Nature Spiritual World Three First Creation Medium Laws Through Absolutely Factors Contact Materials His Dominated Artist Different Which Us Creates Who Works Expression Inner Second Third Inner World
I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that. Hasan M. Elahi
You Change People Control Meet Okay Pretty Fact Accepted Going Much Ignorant Ignorant People
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. Jackson Pollock
Art Time Space Feelings Rather His Than Modern Artist Space And Time Working Expressing Illustrating
Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others. James De La Vega
Yourself Believe In Yourself Believe Others Trying Stop Convince
We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it. James Turrell
Time Best You Experience Light Made Feeling Down Dim Eye Out Pupil See Touch Colour Feel Like Opens Cave Then Really Twilight
Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception. James Turrell
Light Space Perception Other Our Seem Something Through Generally Feels Like Make Because Occupying Making Arrest Passing Itself Just Being Spaces Plane Use Illuminate Things
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive. Jaron Lanier
You Experience Mind Musical Musical Instrument Range Possibilities Object Through Computer Allowing Emotionally Device Like Instrument Huge Authentic Precedent Any Human Where Human Experience Interface Should Body Explore Your Your Body Connects Expressive
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. Jean-Michel Basquiat
Art Needs Say Critic Out Find Critics Know Listen Anybody Who
It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others. Jeff Koons
You Yourself Others Relevance Out Finding About Objects Imperfection Perfection Accept Go Then
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. John Berger
Natural World Result Rest Poverty Before Rich Other Our Unlike Scarcity Priorities Imposed Any Century Set
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. Joshua Reynolds
Man Corrupts Nation He Greatest Greatest Man Taste Forms Next Who
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