5001 quotes by artists for you to enjoy

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. Michelangelo

Love Nature Cities Above Never Felt Salvation

I like the relationship between the master and the student. Each piece has new problems, and each is different. They're all an indentured servitude. There's that subjugation that you have to put yourself under. It's a give and take. There is work involved, and during that time, the greatest things are revealed. Mike Bidlo

Work Time Relationship You Yourself Problems Master Give Give And Take Student Take Put Between New Like Piece Involved Revealed Greatest Greatest Things Subjugation Different Each Things Servitude

I like a happy ending. That's what I do all the time. I like to make people feel happy. Mort Walker

Time Happy People Ending Feel Like Make Happy Ending

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat. Mother Maribel

Work Good Prayer Will First Diffuse Cold Our Unless Furnace Frantic Only Real Iron Efforts Heat Real Work Little

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best. Nadar

Best Know Person Portrait

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Own Shadows Terrified Prisoners Afraid

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. Nam June Paik

Life War Good You Natural Progress Strong Half Our Jobs Must Only High-Tech Make Deny Human Cannot Human Element Natural Life Modesty Element Keep Technological Need

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen. Natasha Tsakos

I think that we want to believe in Superman. Neal Adams

Superman Believe Think Want

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. Norman McLaren

Art Drawings Drawn Animation Move Movements

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I? Otto Dix

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. Pablo Picasso

Day Great Genius Will Become Everything Some He Taken Disappears Trace Without Boy Real Up Begin Child Precocious May Childhood Happen Again Might Then Painter Even Zero Grows