5001 quotes by artists for you to enjoy

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind. George Lois

Work Courage People Wind Blow Arts Certainly Graphics Professional Zero

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. Georges Braque

Art Picture Once Destiny Has-Been Object New Accepts Been Incorporated

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. Georges Seurat

Science Say See Some Only Poetry Paintings

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it. Georgia O'Keeffe

Looking About Had Felt Equivalent Create Copy

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them. Gerald Scarfe

If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word. Giles Andreae

Beautiful Depression Me Joy World Gift Simple Word Rare Our One Thing Delight Feel Another Spread Human Taught Capacity Reason Now Why Compelled Thing Treasure Here

There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's a picture book, but it works at so many levels, and it's fantastic. Graeme Base

Book Picture Wild Writer Picture Book Most Sublime American Where Fantastic Really Many Many Levels Works Things Levels

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy. Grandma Moses

Important Painting Busy Important Thing Keeping Thing

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. Gustave Courbet

Painting Negation Visible Ideal Essence Representation Realism Forms

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. Hans Hofmann

Art Complicated Creation Final Relation Astronomical Possibilities Would Take Combination Pictorial Concentration Explain Realization Act

The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera. Hasan M. Elahi

God Our Concept Camera Surveillance Ingrained Original Beings

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. Henri Matisse

Time Myself Light Long Long Time Power Picture Possess Must Rather Through Generate Real Been Real Power Expressing Now Conscious

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. Henri Matisse

Exactitude is not truth. Henri Matisse

Truth

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. Henri Matisse

Better Will Tree Must Instinct Thwarted Branches Prune Just Grow

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it. Henri Rousseau

War Mother King Tries Forbid Him Go Should Start

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer. JR

Man Become Retired Printer Am Wallpaper

Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat. Jack Levine

Somebody Nice Bone Throat Opposition

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. Jackson Pollock

Work Walk Painting Sides Way Ease More Part Feel Since Around Am Literally Floor Nearer Four

I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me. James Turrell

Great Me Pilot Sky Live Meaning

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