Quotes by Artist | Beyond Motive 15/55

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"Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message."

"Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message."

John Hench, American Artist

5

"I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."

"I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."

Kathe Kollwitz, German Artist

5

"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television."

"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television."

Andy Warhol, American Artist

Life, Thought, Being, Living

5

"I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do."

"I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do."

Sol LeWitt, American Artist

Art, Time, Artists, Want

5

"I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion."

"I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

5

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Creativity, Sun

5

"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it."

"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it."

Salvador Dali, Spanish Artist

5

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

5

"I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends."

"I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends."

Josef Albers, German Artist

Friendship, Friends

5

"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will."

"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will."

Willem de Kooning, American Artist

Customer, Freewill

5

"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."

"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Life, Happiness, Time, Work

5

"I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening."

"I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening."

Don Van Vliet, American Artist

Music, Shakespeare, Words

5

"Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality."

"Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality."

Diego Rivera, Mexican Artist

Body, Sexuality, Woman

5

"Through a painting we can see the whole world."

"Through a painting we can see the whole world."

Hans Hofmann, German Artist

Painting, World

5

"After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators."

"After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

Art, Being, School

5

"I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is."

"I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is."

Don Bluth, American Artist

Action, Animation, Trying

5

"By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time."

"By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time."

Eddie Campbell, Scottish Artist

Time, End, March

5

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."

Salvador Dali, Spanish Artist

5

"In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this."

"In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this."

Henry Flynt, American Artist

Oil, Painting, Radical

5

"Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from."

"Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from."

Jaime Hernandez, American Artist

Art, Opportunity, Excitement

5

"There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else."

"There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else."

Beatrice Wood, American Artist

Life, Act, Acting, Forget

5

"Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think."

"Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think."

Yoko Ono, American Artist

Change, Power, Peace, Thinking

5

"But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression."

"But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

5

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Wisdom, May, Order

5

"I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life."

"I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life."

Henry Flynt, American Artist

5

"Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble."

"Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble."

Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist

5

"So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing."

"So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

5

"Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another."

"Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another."

Marcel Duchamp, French Artist

Writing, Chess, Eating

5

"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."

"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

Movies, Music, Influence, Moments

5

"Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science."

"Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science."

Georges Seurat, French Artist

Poetry, Science

5

"When I was a child, I used to cry all the time."

"When I was a child, I used to cry all the time."

Gwen John, Welsh Artist

5

"John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future."

"John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future."

Yoko Ono, American Artist

Love, Concern, Deep, Future

5

"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different."

"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different."

David Hockney, English Artist

Sense, Television

5

"Art imitates life. Life imitates high school."

"Art imitates life. Life imitates high school."

Brad Holland, American Artist

Art, Life, School

5

"Conscience is a man's compass."

"Conscience is a man's compass."

Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch Artist

Conscience, Man

5

"There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me."

"There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me."

Tracey Emin, English Artist

Work, People, Nothing

5

"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature."

"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

Nature, Richness

5

"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world."

"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world."

Hans Hofmann, German Artist

Art, Work, Emotions

5

"The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it."

"The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

5

"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage."

"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage."

Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist

5

"The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it."

"The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

Art, First, Spirit

5

"There are enough no smoking places now."

"There are enough no smoking places now."

David Hockney, English Artist

5

"Good taste is as tiring as good company."

"Good taste is as tiring as good company."

Francis Picabia, French Artist

5

"Artists are like everybody else."

"Artists are like everybody else."

Damien Hirst, British Artist

5

"Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture."

"Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture."

Ben Shahn, Lithuanian Artist

Time, People, Monuments, Sculpture

5

"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."

"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

Difference, Energy, Theatre

5

"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."

"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."

Salvador Dali, Spanish Artist

Nature, Mistakes, Will

5

"Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow!"

"Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow!"

Isabel Yosito, American Artist

Encouragement, Deep, Joy, Lies, Magic

5

"No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around."

"No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around."

H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist

5

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."

David Hockney, English Artist

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