Quotes by Artists

Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn't put it in my art. Roy Lichtenstein
Life Art My Life Something Put Terrible Happen
Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this. Roy Lichtenstein
Work You Own Believe Think My Own Could Impersonal Feel Look Am Being Wanted Personally Really Programmed
I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures. Roy Lichtenstein
Looking Think Would Thrown Picasso Over Pictures Like Look Himself His Up Influence
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like. Roy Lichtenstein
Mind Will Painting Guess Drawing Kind Color Colors Like Look Around Very Size Really Hard
Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence. Roy Lichtenstein
Myself Thought Cartoon Cartoons Picasso Almost Always Were Been His Huge Huge Influence Done Getting Influence Rid Paintings Even Away Started
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity. Roy Lichtenstein
You Strange People Sometimes Painting Thinking Thirty Thirty-Five Our Out Has-Been Kind Some Know Look How Were Oddity Been Years Normal Yes Five Forget Anything Which Next Now Expressionist Started
I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things. Roy Lichtenstein
People Think Other Saw Way Seeing About Excited Interested Things
I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school. Roy Lichtenstein
Me Remember School Late Tell High High School Drew Doing Years Child Again Then Vaguely
Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still. Roy Lichtenstein
Something Invented No-One Like Him Still Really Painted
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. Rudolf Arnheim
Art Good Language Smell Must Studio Talk Household Although Differ Should Good Art Theory Painters
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand. Rudolf Arnheim
Mind Understand Condition Human Order Anything Human Mind Necessary
The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received. Rudolf Arnheim
Country Other Added Considered Indeed Spice Promise Give Area Had Over Accent Sciences Foreign Imports Inferior Arts European Received
The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind. Rudolf Arnheim
Training Organization Mind Young Suitable Clarification Visual Objects Most Well Integrated Effective Patterns Forms Grounds
In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival. Rudolf Arnheim
Alien Latest Immigrants Simply Arrival Land
In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. Rudolf Arnheim
First First Of All Order Senses Many
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. Rudolf Arnheim
Nature Man Science Organic State Inorganic Both Tendency Towards Governed Hand Modem Same Order Then Actions
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement. Rudolf Arnheim
Other Distribution Kinds Given Entropy Overall Concerned Arrangement Hand Items Probability Succession Theory Series
Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder. Rudolf Arnheim
Equilibrium Opposite Very Disorder Now
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. Rudolf Arnheim
Art Culture Simple Reflection Style Highest Demand Spontaneously Always Been Existence Up Mature Any Human Arts Human Existence Lived Ever
The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points. Rudolf Arnheim
Beautiful Change Simplicity Every Changes Constant Direction Points Line Cannot Compass
I think technology is us, not something we invented. I think we are more psychic now because we have cell phones and you can look and see who's calling you. When people start seeing technology as us, as humanity, our whole idea of what existence is, is going to shift. Ryan Trecartin
You Technology Humanity Phones People Psychic Cell Phones Think Our See Seeing Something Invented More Idea Look Calling Because Shift Existence Cell Going Us Whole Now Start
I'm interested in exploring the places where all media meet. As TV, Internet, art, games and movies all start moving towards the same point, I want to be part of inventing that space. I'd like to explore media that are traditionally seen as part of the mainstream but not necessarily utilize mainstream formulas. Ryan Trecartin
Art Space Internet Seen Meet TV Inventing Point Part Mainstream Towards Like Same Where Want Interested Places Movies Moving Formulas Explore Exploring Games Media Utilize Necessarily Start
Am I over existing or am I over existing? That's my inside joke. Ryan Trecartin
Joke Inside Over Am Existing
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. Salvador Dali
Dreams Man Eyes Cause Walls Seen Dust Television See Rise Only Through Never Most Pierce His Order Inaccessible Regions Planetary Apparatus Who Shut Imagine
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. Salvador Dali
Money Nothing Mysticism Like Liking Glory Than Less
An increase in light gives an increase in darkness. Sam Francis
Darkness Light Increase Gives
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