Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish
to paint.
Francis Bacon
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else,
anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Francis Bacon
The job of
the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon ...I paint German artists
whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits
too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with
blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.
Georg Baselitz
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
William Blake To
see far is one thing, going there is another.
Constantin Brancusi
Create like a god,
command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brancusi
What is real is not the
external form, but the essence of things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express
anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
Constantin Brancusi
Don't
look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you.
Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.
Constantin
Brancusi Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing
in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Georges Braque Who in the world am I? Ah, that's
the great puzzle.
Lewis Carroll Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.
Paul
Cezanne
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne
What
is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate
to nature? Art is in harmony parallel with nature.
Paul Cezanne
All my life I have
worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting
without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to
raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure.
The pleasure must be found in the work.
Paul Cezanne Great art picks up where nature
ends.
Marc Chagall The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most
diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist
who discovers it.
Gustave Courbet Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador
Dali Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas What moves
men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession
with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided
it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.
Walt Disney The longer
you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Lucian
Freud
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought
it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's
difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.
Lucian Freud The object of art is
not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Alberto Giacometti
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can
for as many people as I can for as long as I can. Drawing is still basically the
same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world.
It lives through magic.
Keith Haring If I could say it in words there would be no
reason to paint.
Edward Hopper I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own
reality.
Frida Kahlo There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky
A Good artist has less time than ideas.
Martin Kippenberger
I am rather like a travelling
salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.
Martin Kippenberger In our time there are many artists who do something because it
is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving
themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only;
making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Poor
is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da Vinci Life obliges me to
do something, so I paint.
Rene Magritte What I dream of is an art of balance, of
purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.
Henri Matisse
Drawing
is like making an expressive gesturewith the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse
.
. I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics
or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to
be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and
even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely
on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the
spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough
for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.
Henri Matisse
Creativity
takes courage.
Henri Matisse If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery,
it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo
Lord, grant that I may always desire
more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo I feel the need of attaining the maximum
of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting
a character of even greater bareness.
Joan Miro The position of the artist is humble.
He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian Colour is my day-
Henry Moore It is important
to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.
Berthe Morisot Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes
the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch
No longer shall I paint interiors with
men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and
suffer and love.
Edvard Munch So I said to myself-
Georgia O'Keeffe
I found I could say things with color and shapes that
I couldn't say any other way-
Georgia O'Keeffe
Claes Oldenburg
John
Olsen
Jackson Pollock
The painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
Every
good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock If you want to have clean ideas, change
them as often as you change your shirts.
Francis Picabia I don't say everything,
but I paint everything.
Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday
life.
Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo
Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
There are painters
who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their
art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
Every child
is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
Rembrandt You come to
nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
Pierre Auguste Renoir
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints
as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such
thing as good painting about nothing.
Mark Rothko For me, painting is a way to forget
life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Georges Rouault Everytime I paint
a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent It is not the language of painters
but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things
themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent
Van Gogh
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
Vincent Van Gogh
I want to
touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'
Vincent Van Gogh
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing
it. The strokes come like speech.
Vincent Van Gogh I have Social Disease. I have to
go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
Andy Warhol
Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
Andy Warhol
Making
money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol
Being
born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Andy Warhol
Don't pay any
attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol
Death
means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.
Andy Warhol
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James McNeill Whistler The
fine art of painting, which is the bastard of alchemy, always has been always will
be, a game. The rules of the game are quite simple: in a given arena, on as many
psychic fronts as the talent allows, one must visually describe, the centre of the
meaning of existense
Brett Whiteley
Art is the thrilling spark that beats death -
Brett Whiteley
Everything is such a sort of stoned state... I walk around with
a bunch of violets in my hand and a sledgehammer and a grain of sand in my head.
I am happy.
Brett Whiteley
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