Quotes by Artist | Beyond Motive 12/55

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"I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people."

"I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people."

Jean-Michel Basquiat, American Artist

Money, People, Drugs

6

"Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things."

"Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things."

Robert Smithson, American Artist

Language, Words

6

"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."

"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Creativity, Colors

6

"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that."

"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that."

H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist

6

"I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months."

"I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months."

Peter Scott, English Artist

Argument, Fact, Months, Training

6

"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."

"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

6

"There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work."

"There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

Movies, Work, People, Want

5

"There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book."

"There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

Love, Music, Building

5

"It is still color, it is not yet light."

"It is still color, it is not yet light."

Pierre Bonnard, French Artist

Perception, Light

5

"In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest."

"In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest."

Terri Windling, American Artist

Folklore, Land, Now, Years

5

"Work alone will efface the footsteps of work."

"Work alone will efface the footsteps of work."

James Whistler, American Artist

Work, Footsteps, Will

5

"How can we live and die and never know the difference?"

"How can we live and die and never know the difference?"

Clyfford Still, American Artist

5

"I don't think artists are made, I think they're born."

"I don't think artists are made, I think they're born."

Don Van Vliet, American Artist

Writing, Artists

5

"Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind."

"Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind."

Hans Hofmann, German Artist

Life, Nature, Being, Mind

5

"It's whatever sells; it's the business of it."

"It's whatever sells; it's the business of it."

Don Bluth, American Artist

5

"My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind."

"My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind."

Boyd Rice, American Artist

Impression, Magic, Mind, Prayer

5

"I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that."

"I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that."

Aaron McGruder, American Artist

Media, Flags, News, Want

5

"One works without thinking how to work."

"One works without thinking how to work."

Jasper Johns, American Artist

5

"Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know."

"Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know."

Terri Windling, American Artist

Passion, Writing

5

"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."

"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."

Howard Hodgkin, British Artist

5

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

Kelly Millar, American Artist

School, Schools

5

"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."

"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."

Henri Matisse, French Artist

Energy, Witchcraft

5

"Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body."

"Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body."

Matthew Barney, American Artist

Body, Comedy, Gravity, Tradition

5

"You have to understand the nature of light."

"You have to understand the nature of light."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

5

"It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized."

"It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

Work, Eloquence, Hardwork, Mind

5

"The cynicism that you have is not your real soul."

"The cynicism that you have is not your real soul."

Yoko Ono, American Artist

5

"I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?"

"I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?"

Otto Dix, German Artist

5

"There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true."

"There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true."

Tracey Emin, English Artist

Now, Saying, Wrong

5

"One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space."

"One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space."

Jasper Johns, American Artist

Creativity, Ideas, Space

5

"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."

"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

5

"I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan."

"I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan."

Eddie Campbell, Scottish Artist

5

"A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art."

"A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art."

Lucian Freud, British Artist

5

"Lack of charisma can be fatal."

"Lack of charisma can be fatal."

Jenny Holzer, American Artist

5

"This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony."

"This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony."

Robert Delaunay, French Artist

Action, Harmony, Will

5

"I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed."

"I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

5

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

Andy Warhol, American Artist

Art, Business, Money

5

"I still love a lot of the guys who just paint."

"I still love a lot of the guys who just paint."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

5

"I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction."

"I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction."

Ben Nicholson, British Artist

Work, Addiction

5

"The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity."

"The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity."

Robert Delaunay, French Artist

Creativity, Idea, World

5

"Every drop in the ocean counts."

"Every drop in the ocean counts."

Yoko Ono, American Artist

5

"I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another."

"I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

Life, Earth, Energy, France

5

"The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular."

"The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular."

Rudolf Arnheim, German Artist

Nature, Time, Man, Order

5

"I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars."

"I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars."

Mort Walker, American Artist

5

"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."

"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."

Salvador Dali, Spanish Artist

Dream, Dreams, Cause, Eyes, Man

5

"Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like."

"Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like."

Donald Judd, American Artist

5

"I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods."

"I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods."

Yves Tanguy, French Artist

Art, Artists, Gain, Ideology

5

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

Paul Gauguin, French Artist

Introspection, Eyes, Order

5

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

Andy Warhol, American Artist

Art, Business, Money, Being

5

"The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy."

"The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy."

Georges Rouault, French Artist

Art, Causes, Conscience, Disease

5

"You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints."

"You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints."

William Merritt Chase, American Artist

Nature, Colors, Light, Study

5

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