Quotes by Artists

I would kiss you, had I the courage. Edouard Manet
You Courage Kiss Would Had
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. Edouard Manet
You Science Worth Feeling Imagination Enough More Know Well Very Craft Far Us Your
This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man. Edouard Manet
Work Man Woman Too Bad Exceptional She
I feel that my work comes alive all the time. Eduardo Risso
Work Time Alive Feel
When I'm on an adventure, I live with a camera in my hand, and that's what I try to give to the readers inside the space that gives us every chapter of the story. Eduardo Risso
Chapter Try Space Live Every Inside Give Gives Adventure Readers Camera Hand Story Us
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes. Edvard Munch
Youth People Young Must Prosper Talented Talented People Go Very Paint Painters
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. Edvard Munch
Art Revolution Painting Frames Kind Civil Following Civil Wars Bourgeois French French Revolution Dealer Came After Wars Large
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. Edvard Munch
Good Enemies Find Likeness Always His Person Paint Portrait
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. Edvard Munch
Good Other Except Himself Person Believes Portraits
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. Edvard Munch
Spiritual Made Sense Poems Records Prose Partly Diary Experiences Ordinary Ordinary Sense Lengthy Notes
I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me. Edvard Munch
Myself Me Peace Build Otherwise Say Kind Something He Between She Model Wall Behind Might Confuses Paint
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color. Edvard Munch
Fall Rise More Color Rembrandt Am Line Than Michelangelo Common Interested
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? Edvard Munch
Backwards Developed Go Why Technique
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men. Edvard Munch
Man Money Men First Rich Steals Gives He Over Hearts Rich Man Then Who Twice
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. Edvard Munch
Eyes Smell Gone Damp Abandoned Out See More Only Had Put Like Perhaps Does Been Die Cellar Any Being Door Anything Cannot Notices Slammed Shut
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter. Edvard Munch
People Relatives Will Difficult Earth Find Religious Religious People Rate Conceive Continue Friends Any Afterlife Conversations Many Believing Here Hereafter Christians Interrupted Imagine
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. Edvard Munch
Life Seen Painting Mood Phonograph Seeking Colors Make Does Lines Vibrate Forms Origin Paintings
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. Edward Hopper
Nature Painting Aim Intimate Possible Exact Most Always Been Impression
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. Edward Hopper
Work Vision Inevitable Find Intrusion Disturbing Part Most Always Itself Replacement Proceeds Interested Working Elements
More of me comes out when I improvise. Edward Hopper
Me Improvise Out More
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. Edward Hopper
Nature Together Will Accidents Think Humility Intimate Moods More Attempt Part Study Reactions Renewed Still Surprise Wonder Again Capable Grasp Basic Sympathetic
I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums. Edward Hopper
White Mediums Find Lead Most Oil Satisfactory
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking. Edward Hopper
Property White Think Scaling Cracking
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. Edward Hopper
Nature Value Innovations More Merely Perhaps Powers Led Impressionist Accurate Representation Much Expression Technical Enlarging
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method. Edward Hopper
Funny Business Pure Medium Adding Possibly Directly Almost Along Until Without Becomes Go Method Were Any Oil Canvas Little Use Help Paint Start
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. Edward Hopper
Sunlight About Part House Sort Upper Elation
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