Quotes by Artists

This acting was very hard work. Jack Levine

Work Hard Work Very Acting Hard

Impulses are hard to come by these days. Jack Levine

Days Come Impulses Hard

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. Jackson Pollock

Me Painting Kind He Drove His Realism Hard Right

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. Jackson Pollock

Tools Further Brushes Continue Get Etc Painter Usual Away Palette

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes. Jacques-Louis David

It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it. Jaime Hernandez

Events Rare Maggie Head Like She Go End Up Going Move In-Between Story Then Next Fill Actually Starting

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things. Jaime Hernandez

Illustration Other Side Main Comics Been Than Done Things

Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard! Jaime Hernandez

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly. James De La Vega

Ugly Beauty Magazines Girlfriend Feel Make

Enjoy the day as if it were your last. James De La Vega

Day Enjoy Were Your Last

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. James Houston

You Words Tools Writer Basic

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads. James Northcote

Knowledge Men Learned

The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964. James Rosenquist

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside. James Rosenquist

Painting Tricks Outside Learned Lot

When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content. James Rosenquist

Chapel Out Content Sistine Wanted Paint Started

I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat. James Rosenquist

Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work. James Rosenquist

Work Made Feelings Society Nine About Various Pictures Because Comments Antiwar American Did Done Them American Society Certainly Paintings

I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't. James Rosenquist

Day Every Day Important Every Think Seems Actions

I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks. James Rosenquist

Avenue Madison Madison Avenue Like Know Advertiser Bunch Used Jerks