Quotes by Artists

It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf. Olafur Eliasson

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more. Oskar Kokoschka

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture. Otto Dix

Art Experience Reality Picture Few Sense Painting Living Everybody Sight Sees Colors Know Very Forms Them Should Necessary Thinks

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. Pablo Picasso

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. Pablo Picasso

Sugar Bath Dissolve Everything Miracle Like Does Lump

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. Pablo Picasso

Truth Art Lie Enables Realize Us

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. Pablo Picasso

Life Work Seduction Ultimate Your

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. Pablo Picasso

People Painting Think Detail Particular Does Opposite Just Whole Peach

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. Pablo Picasso

You Believe Say Tell Lies Tempt Particularly Answer Always Questions

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. Pablo Picasso

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. Pablo Picasso

Eyes Better Ought Out Put Sing Order Painters

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. Paul Cezanne

Nature Pure Everything Distinct Drawing Colour Coloured Abstraction

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. Paul Cezanne

Mind Aid Other Eye Them Should Painter Each Things Two

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. Paul Cezanne

You Painting Difficult Think Always Got

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. Paul Cezanne

Nature Subject Impressionist Sensations Realize Paint

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. Paul Cezanne

Art Painting More Am Friend Than Producer

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted. Paul Cezanne

Day Exhausted Totally Models Two

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away. Paul Cezanne

Time Impossible Thinking Emotion Come Us Now Away

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day. Paul Cezanne

Day Soul Every Day People Every Think Sugar Changes How

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. Paul Cezanne

Pure Clear French Verse Landscape

A puny body weakens the soul. Paul Cezanne

Soul Weakens Puny Body

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. Paul Cezanne

Past Adds Oneself Merely New Does Link Substitute