Quotes by Artists

I've had an absolutely charmed life in every aspect of it. I do for my job what I would do for a hobby if it wasn't my job. Half the secret of happiness, I'm ecstatically happily married with three great kids, you know. It's been a blessed life. Graeme Base

I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star. Graeme Base

Amazing Weeks Came Ship Australia Five Northern Eight Star

I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers thought that's what to expect from Graeme Base. With 'The Sign of the Seahorse,' I took a step away from the puzzle-book genre - that was more of an adventure story. Graeme Base

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place. Graeme Base

Me Generation Important This Generation Books Tell Remain Stunning Likes Source Screen Stories Whether Place Storytelling Imagery Profoundly

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. Grandma Moses

Eyes Sometimes Trees Out Seek Window Shadows Scene Color Look Ready Close Get Greens Just Different Paint Imagine

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. Grandma Moses

Work Primitive Amateur Sells Artist Whose

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish. Grant Wood

Great Beer You Wine Fish Anything Meat

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often. Gustav Klimt

Time Tea Painting Gathering Back Instead Bowling Go Very Dusk From Time To Time Often After Storm Large Villages Evening Session

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. Gustave Courbet

Art Painting Consist Only Real Concrete Existing Representation Essentially Things

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. Gustave Courbet

Truth Time Truth Is Power Beauty Relative Direct Ratio Individual Like Conception Artist Acquired Who Grasp Expression Lives

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. Gustave Courbet

Nation France Only Small Civilized Which Reside Numbers

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. Gustave Moreau

One Thing Abstract Towards Attraction Am Dominated Irresistible Burning Thing

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied. Gustave Moreau

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering. Gwen John

Suffering Secretive Passionate Causes Reserved Violence

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it. H. R. Giger

Hope You Somewhere Beauty Kind Look

No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around. H. R. Giger

Work Down Out Never Around Upside Upside Down Turned

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future. H. R. Giger

You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that. H. R. Giger

Funny You Problem Too Much Nice Busy Carefully Too Other Bit About Someone More Studying Stuff Know Read Because Said Am Hear Text Little Little Bit Fantasy Much Now Need

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings. H. R. Giger

People Sometimes See Horrible Only Terrible Paintings Things