Quotes by Artists

I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too. Barbara Kruger

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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. Ben Nicholson

Soul Corruption Consumerism American

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. Berthe Morisot

Brush Understand Real Hand Painters

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth. Bob Kane

Truth Myth Difficult Times Separate

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime. Bob Kane

Legend Batman Has-Been Lifetime Been Acknowledged

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint. Bob Ross

Good Day You Every Day Good Day Believe Every Paint

I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way any more. Bob Ross

Work Myself You Job Tough Late Way Promised Guy More Fed Fed Up Make Makes Got Bed Up Person Any Going Being Mean Scrub Requires Your Who Away Ever

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about. Bob Ross

Home People Will Picture About Something Never Smithsonian Proud Hang May Anybody Show Certainly Show People Paint

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself. Boyd Rice

Myself Labeling Everything Always Labeled Done Being Avoid Disposal

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists. Camille Pissarro

God Care Imbeciles Takes Artists Children Little Little Children

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization. Charles Marion Russell

Destroys Civilization Calls Pioneer Things

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage. Christo

Collage Drawing Drawings Except Sell Technical Incorporated

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. Chuck Close

Work Garden Way About Something Buddhist Like Zen Gravel

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. Chuck Close

Life Art Time Me You Experience Amazing Space Somebody Painting Every Think Every Time Mediums Way See Life Experience Magical Dirt Colored Most Make Another Another Way How Surface Go Truly Where Flat Figured Rub Museum

Contrast is what makes photography interesting. Conrad Hall

Photography Makes Contrast Interesting

I have my pace and way of living, and I'm not looking for something. Cy Twombly

Looking Living Way Something Pace

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great. Damien Hirst

Great You Change People Fear Debate Listening Being Ignored Big Before Minds Always Been Get Any Artist Being Ignored Aware

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction. Damien Hirst

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt. Damien Hirst

Freedom Genius Believe Think Rembrandt Like Anyone

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy. Dan Colen

Joy Out Sorrow Celebrating Double-Edged Much Mechanisms