Quotes by Artist | Beyond Motive 20/59

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"One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute."

"One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute."

Helen Frankenthaler, American Artist

40

"That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness."

"That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness."

Corita Kent, American Artist

40

"In love, the one who runs away is the winner."

"In love, the one who runs away is the winner."

Henri Matisse, French Artist

40

"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."

"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Wisdom, Harmony, Obvious

40

"The days you work are the best days."

"The days you work are the best days."

Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist

40

"Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back."

"Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back."

Maxfield Parrish, American Artist

Colors, Deep, Now

40

"I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you."

"I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you."

Frank Stella, American Artist

Art, Old, World

40

"Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe."

"Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe."

Philip Guston, American Artist

Society, Imagination, Heart, Painting

40

"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."

"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

40

"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."

"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."

Howard Hodgkin, British Artist

40

"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."

"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, Austrian Artist

Time, Evening, Painting, Tea

40

"My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything."

"My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything."

Howard Hodgkin, British Artist

39

"Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal."

"Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal."

Egon Schiele, Austrian Artist

39

"You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon."

"You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon."

David Lloyd, British Artist

Peace, Men, Road

39

"I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies."

"I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies."

Dennis Muren, American Artist

Business, Movies, Time, Rest

39

"But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people."

"But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people."

Don Bluth, American Artist

People, Day, World, Years

39

"And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission."

"And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission."

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist

39

"A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods."

"A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods."

Robert Henri, American Artist

39

"We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children."

"We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children."

Yoko Ono, American Artist

Family, Children, World

39

"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

39

"I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do."

"I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do."

Eddie Campbell, Scottish Artist

Love, Art, Thinking

39

"One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director."

"One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director."

John Kricfalusi, Canadian Artist

Employment, Jobs

39

"That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally."

"That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

Film, Freedom, Light

39

"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

39

"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."

"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."

Claude Monet, French Artist

Love, Art, People

39

"Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all."

"Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all."

Don Bluth, American Artist

39

"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."

"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."

Edgar Degas, French Artist

Creativity, Idea, Painting

39

"War is over if you want it."

"War is over if you want it."

Yoko Ono, American Artist

39

"Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured."

"Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

39

"One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist."

"One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist."

Anish Kapoor, Indian Artist

39

"When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out."

"When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out."

Frank Stella, American Artist

Art, May, Painting

39

"But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it."

"But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

39

"And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh."

"And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh."

David Hockney, English Artist

39

"That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people."

"That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

People, Learning, Will

39

"I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin."

"I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin."

Eddie Campbell, Scottish Artist

Argument, Queen

39

"A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light."

"A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light."

David Hockney, English Artist

Trust, Belief, Light

39

"In America the biggest is the best."

"In America the biggest is the best."

Roy Lichtenstein, American Artist

Capitalism, America

39

"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."

"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."

Howard Hodgkin, British Artist

Thought, England, Worry

39

"People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there."

"People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

39

"Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really."

"Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really."

Balthus, French Artist

Language, Painting

39

"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."

"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."

Edward Hopper, American Artist

Present, Sensations

39

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Creativity, Art, Life, Purpose

39

"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."

"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."

Paul Klee, Swiss Artist

39

"The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that."

"The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that."

Jerry West, American Artist

Decision-Making, Decision, Fans, Support

39

"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore."

"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore."

Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist

39

"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."

"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."

Emily Carr, Canadian Artist

39

"The idea is that the object has a language unto itself."

"The idea is that the object has a language unto itself."

Anish Kapoor, Indian Artist

Creativity, Idea, Language

39

"I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally."

"I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally."

Dennis Muren, American Artist

War, First, Nothing

39

"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit."

"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit."

George Grosz, German Artist

Business, Individuality, Personality, Poets

39

"I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like."

"I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

Philosophy, Words

39

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