Quotes by Artists

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it. Marcel Duchamp
Needs Money Care Enough Worry Would About More Had Lot Any Want
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. Marcel Duchamp
Art Beauty Victim Purer More Am Still Chess Than Cannot Social Much Position
The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. Marcel Duchamp
Me You Man More Only Individual He Like Most Because Makes Repeat Brain Than Artists Themselves Interests Noticed
The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and everything related to it has become one of the most trivial activities of our epoch. Marcel Duchamp
Art World Degree Become Related Our Everything Has-Been Entire Entire World Trivial Most Reached Been Low Epoch Activities Level
Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever. Margaret Keane
God Strength Me You Bible Rights Lie Will Be Brave Intimidated Tell Give Given Never Name Read Pray Up Brave Really Stand Use Your Stand Up Jehovah Ever
If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference. Marina Abramovic
Best You World Bake Baker Make Makes Making Context Artist Difference Bread Gallery
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall. Marina Abramovic
You Conversation Words Total He Himself Nonverbal Cover Wall Then Create Stranger
For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness. Marina Abramovic
Me State Step Perform Performance Different Holy Really Ground Consciousness
I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it. Marina Abramovic
Art Spiritual Political Leader Everything Layers Am Forget Social Then Therapeutic Therapist Many Elements
My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.' Marina Abramovic
Phone Somebody First Everybody Phone Calls Scene Looked She Calls Makes Said American Same Shoots Movies American Movies Then Grandmother
Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay. Marjane Satrapi
Life You People Bad People Beginning Pay Nice Complex Bad Until Redemption Always End Person Any Notion Who
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing. Marjane Satrapi
Writing Human Being First Drawing Human Being
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise. Marjane Satrapi
Time Improvise Every Changes Every Time Everybody Everybody Else Else Everything Everything Changes Say Bore Write Never Open Freestyle Another Very Going Program Speeches
All big changes of the world come from words. Marjane Satrapi
Words World Big Changes Come
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong. Maurice Sendak
Business Tricky Something Wrong Goes Childhood
People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice. Maurice Sendak
You Disappointment People Phone Alive See Voice New Calling Answer Still Hear Been York New York
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. Maurice Sendak
Mom Sometimes Will Wrong Thing Wrong Mothers Human Children Human Beings Beings Thing
Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation. Maurizio Cattelan
Work Art Great Every Promise Open Invitation Like Escape Therefore
I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. Max Beckmann
Reality Visible Seeking Through Invisible Am Which Bridge
The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught. Maximillian Degenerez
Education Class Brainy Made Think Tend Individuals Beyond Learners Continuous Self-Taught Up Formal Formal Education Themselves Who
Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit. Maximillian Degenerez
Life Heart Mind Dig Wild Possibilities Abandon Entice Spirit Delicious Excite Opening Your
Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo. Maximillian Degenerez
Path Own Status Status Quo Entrepreneurs Misfits Always Making Question Forge Quo Core
A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it. Michael Heizer
Work Art Angry People Strong Speechless Feel Because Understand Leaves Little Really
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. Michelangelo
Art Thought Every Carved Greatest Artist Form Hold Marble
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. Michelangelo
Beautiful Pain See Gives Never Failing Beautiful Thing Does Hear Much Thing
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. Michelangelo
Alone Live Pressures Cannot Paint
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