Quotes by Artists

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content. Arthur Boyd
Stress Mythic Content Metaphysical Australian Landscape Uniqueness
They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant. Arthur Boyd
Arrogant Pretty French Insular Very Nationalistic Used
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do. Arthur Boyd
Art Matter Out Points Alter Wants Them Painter Things
The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves. Arthur Ganson
Me Challenge Statements See Purely Objects Somewhat Emotional Emotional Level Also Make Because How Materials Done Impulse Want Themselves Really Sculpture Level
I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects. Arthur Ganson
Love Relationship Sense Engineering Speeds Out Objects Particular Like Parts Happen To Love Realm Working Spatial Figuring Mechanical Whole Things
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. Balthus
Work Great Struggle Experience Criticism Painting Liberation Feel Like Also Self-Examination Translating Consciousness
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. Balthus
Language Painting Say About Know Another Replaced Cannot Which Really Paint
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings. Balthus
Best Nothing Way Say Best Way Look Known His Begin Us Painter Paintings Let Us Whom Now
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. Balthus
Painting Virtually Evidence Possesses Only Disappeared Look Left Craft Anyone Century Really Who Painters Hardly
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that. Banksy
Art Important Way More Judged Course Than Same Same Level Modern Modern Art Should Level
You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something. Banksy
Time You Signs Live Telling City Something Sell Trying Billboards
Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid. Barbara Hepworth
Work You Will Once Finally Would Tempted Something Hybrid Only Through Halfway Go Off Yield Yielded Any Often Again Produce
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not. Barbara Hepworth
Work Day You Every Day Every Some Had Because Either Midnight Professional Even Found
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. Barbara Hepworth
Space Pleasure Purpose Abstract Most Piercing Make Felt Doing Intense Stone Quite Sensation Different Order Form Realism
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. Barbara Hepworth
Master Must Details Entirely Structure Perhaps Execution Material Surface Yield Handling Tiny Grain Sensitive Whole
Body experience... is the centre of creation. Barbara Hepworth
Experience Creation Centre Body
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination. Barbara Januszkiewicz
Imagination Drawn Visual Visual Arts Expand Arts Your
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette. Barbara Januszkiewicz
Art Me Vision Jazz Musical Visual Seeing Term Offers Expressions Ever-Changing Palette
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities. Barbara Januszkiewicz
Jazz Possibilities Blank Blank Canvas Canvas Full
Imagination needs to be fed. Barbara Januszkiewicz
Needs Imagination Fed
Art matters. Barbara Januszkiewicz
Art Matters
Color is a passion; painting is a passion. Barbara Januszkiewicz
Passion Painting Color
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience. Barbara Kruger
Experience Try Feeling Understanding Think Recognition Kind Some Trying Create Moments Lived
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. Barbara Kruger
Work World Out Had How Figure Bring
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives. Barbara Kruger
Music Our Our Lives TV Most Importantly Influence Movies Us Many Moments Works Lives Profound
Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity. Barbara Kruger
Work Crazy World Better Insanity Worse About Look Make Place Us Chosen Things
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