Quotes by Artists

What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable. Sam Francis
Life Sight Something Only Bearable Make Want Used Fills Utterly
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems. Samuel Lover
Winter Will Hung Biting Worthily Gems Tempting Look Diamonds Which Might Less Neck
Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves! Samuel Lover
Woman Happy Poet Sweet Triumph He Sounds Hear His Verses Oh Loves
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet! Samuel Lover
Old Seriously Made Beauty Lover Sweet Think State More Obliged Tender Through Am Hearing Trumpet Confessions Just Your Now Suffered Ear Assistance Imagine
The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy. Saskia de Brauw
Positive Work Me Travel People Positive Energy Amazing Energy Meetings Give Give Me Inspiring Had Lots Very Different Different People Chance
Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said. Saskia de Brauw
Me Eyes Same Thing He Masculinity Him Said Femininity Boyish His Same Difference Interesting Thing
When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines. Saskia de Brauw
Work Beautiful Good You Girl Good Work Big Before Top Immediately Out Jobs Magazines More Exciting Doing Lots Campaigns Model Models Crappy Who Many Things Career Appreciate
I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up. Saskia de Brauw
Remember Father Teen Able Eat More Up Than Being Body Growing Keep Fast
I've been 6 ft. 2 ins. since I was 13. Saskia de Brauw
Since Been
I like to wear skirts long or short. Saskia de Brauw
Long Wear Like Short Skirts
I like to go to bed early. And I am not a bad cook at all. Saskia de Brauw
Bad Like Bed Am Go Cook Early
When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don't have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use. Saul Leiter
Music Morning Listening Proper Making Am Fame Spaghetti Japanese Realize Use Sauce
Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something. Saul Leiter
Photography Painting Finding About Something Making Different Things
I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion. Saul Leiter
Confusion Picture Looking Photographer Seeing Something Sees Taken Like Know Discover Certain Sudden Why Start
What makes anyone think that I'm any good? Saul Leiter
Good Think Makes Any Anyone
My father thought photography was done by lowlifes. Saul Leiter
Photography Father Thought Done
I am not immersed in self-admiration. Saul Leiter
Immersed Am
I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training. Saul Steinberg
Training Few Draw Drawing Perfecting Academic Without Am Traditional Continue Continuing Ended Childhood After Who Among Interruption
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. Saul Steinberg
You Architecture Thought Building Become Draw Makes Lines Frightening May
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction. Saul Steinberg
More Answers Questions Fiction Anything
Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world. Sean Scully
Art World Water Plants Changes Way Relentless Constant Through Shape Like Geography Just Movement Transformative Sea Works
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me. Sean Scully
Art Me School Thought Paradise Nothing Could Driven Got Art School Artist Stop Wanted Much Really
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to. Sean Scully
Work Me Change Sense Rich Stretched Drawing Kind Simply Tension Freely Reactive Loose Surface Line Very Begin Want Sized Which Canvas Paint Thinly
I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner. Sean Scully
Sense Living Mythic Irish Romantic
When I was a teenager, I was very political. Sean Scully
Political Teenager Very
I'm quite a social person, quite a communicator, and I like to have the work of other people around. Sean Scully
Work People Other Like Around Person Quite Social Communicator
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