Quotes by Artists

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they're told it's all vanity. Daphne Guinness
Art Jewelry People Treat Clothes Though Rap Collect Bad Vanity Bad Rap Like Piece Because Get Clothing Who Even
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. David Hockney
You Mind Drawing Rather Like Make Chess Moves Races Your Eventually Playing
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. David Hockney
You You Can Do It Mind Long Believe Percent Something Fact Envision Limit Really
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. David Hockney
Day Morning Every Day Every Draw Fresh Friends Blooms Get Send Them Flowers
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. David Hockney
Myself Age Live Way See He Artist Forgotten Where Researcher
I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not. Dennis Muren
Enough Tell Direction Wrong Wrong Direction Done Going Early
If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait. Diego Rivera
Woman Hurt Victim More Only Most Obvious Frida Trait Disgusting Wanted Loved Ever Her
And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League. Donald Judd
Art Students New League New Jersey Moved Then Jersey
I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old. Ed Emberley
Beard Old Hair Sweet Kind Born Pot Guy Over Am October Years Children Little Granddaughter Grandpa Who Belly Gray Gray Hair Two
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. Edgar Degas
Art Great Result Reflection Mine Study Spontaneous Masters Than Less
For me, the blank page to draw on is a window to adventure. Eduardo Risso
Me Draw Window Blank Blank Page Adventure Page
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head. Edvard Munch
Mother Hell Sick Punishment Threat Head Over Felt Without Always Childhood Hanging Treated
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use. Edward Hopper
Made France Which Use
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard. Edward Lear
Man Beard Old Feared Wren Said Built Owls Just Old Man Who Hen Four Two
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist. Ellsworth Kelly
Work Me All My Work Brooding Seeing Perceiving Geometric Were Artist Things Kept
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching. Emily Carr
You Old Spring Out Vital Seem More Inspiration Contacts Feel Dead Fresh Go Get Oh Want Old Things Searching Things
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Emily Carr
Learning Language Half Big Lost Born Rather New Sound Dialect Still Were Been Same Where Different Woods Might Sat Staring
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life. Fernando Botero
Life Art Oasis Refuge Place Should Hardness
The circus leaves a sweet memory. Fernando Botero
Memory Sweet Circus Leaves
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. Florence Scovel Shinn
Success Work Man Business Unless He His Loves
I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go. Francis Alys
World Own Way Kids Something Attentive Always Am Go Very Anywhere Create Fascinated
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait. Francisco Goya
Art Me Light Will See Shade Give Give Me Only Color Your Paint Portrait Need
3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell. Frank Miller
Wish Country Hell Those Neighbors Responsible Unprovoked Atrocity Attacked Were Burn Utterly
I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life. Frank Stella
Life Art Me My Life Say Given Like Prefer
Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself. Frida Kahlo
Life Myself Me Mind States Has-Been Inside Could Outside Since Sincere Most Reactions Felt Frequently Always Real Were Been Subjects Real Thing Sensations Order Which Producing Figures Express Thing Profound
Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion. George Lois
Art People Problem Challenge Mind Nervous Other Trends Marketing Reliance Solution Something Oblivion Blank Blank Canvas Open Open Mind Leads New Safe Advertising Because Begin Precisely Canvas Them Should Search Each Why
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