5001 quotes by artists for you to enjoy

I am interested in relating the things we see with the things we see with our eyes closed. James Turrell

Eyes Closed Relating Our See Am Interested Things

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries. Janet Echelman

Life City River Been Central Centuries Four Last Amsterdam

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish. Jaron Lanier

Will Made Other Soon Were Mobs Dictators Appear Each Flourish

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. Jaron Lanier

Science Computer Science Heroic Wild Approach More Computer Highest Leads Adventures Felt Always Goal Exotic Than Where Information Interesting

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Made Look Make Were Child Want Paintings

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Great Woman Painting Mad Some About Occasionally Get Her Awful

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Life Thought Rest My Life Bum Going

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life. Jeff Koons

Life Art Freedom Me Courage Own Believe Has-Been Parameters About Give Give Me My Own Vehicle Exercise Been Expanding Enlightenment

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you. Jeff Koons

Art Me You Trust Acceptance Starts Something Perfect Self Come Within Where Anything Wherever Really Found Bring

For me, Bloodshot was the least appealing character that Valiant had. He was so cold. Jeff Lemire

Character Me Cold Valiant Had He Least Appealing

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends. Jennifer Chiaverini

Best Passion Will Met Strangers Mutual Only Like Hours Talk Until Revealed Friends Just Then Who Two

The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for. Jim Lee

Life You Doctor School Three Long Think Finally All Your Life Long Process Almost Almost All Becoming Years Very Trained Get Process Then Your Specialization Downside Residency Medical Medical School Four Two

The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state. Jim Starlin

Church State Fathers Church And State Between Were Wall Founding Founding Fathers Right

In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true. Joe Shuster

Superman Before Imagination Wild Our Drawing Run TV Visualized True Come Toys Just Movies Show Billboards Games Radio Even

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. John Berger

Naked Dress Never Reveals Condemned Itself Being Form Placed Display

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite. John Berger

Some Propaganda Invariably Long-Term Interests Serve Elite

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. John Berger

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. John Berger

Past Like Around Gradually Dying Grows

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. John Berger

Best Natural World Compassion Thought Way Some Supernatural Being Order Place Which Natural Order Therefore Necessity Basis

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark. John Berger

Hope Dark Energy Circumstances Strongest Frequently Very Form Guarantee

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one. John Dyer

Freedom Pressure Lifestyle Attractive Deadlines Real Very Artist Wander Landscape

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