Quotes by Artist | Beyond Motive 8/56

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"I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles."

"I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles."

David Hockney, English Artist

Gardening, Garden, Will, Zen

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"Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!"

"Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!"

Gilbert Hernandez, American Artist

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"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format."

"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format."

Craig McCracken, American Artist

Television, Charm, Energy, Mind, Pretty

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"All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision."

"All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision."

Kelly Millar, American Artist

History, People, Vision

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"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."

"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."

James Whistler, American Artist

Creativity, Career, Tomorrow

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"In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever."

"In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever."

Trey Parker, American Artist

Fun, Funny, People, Talking

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"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."

"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Art, Work, Engineering

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"I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation."

"I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation."

Jerry West, American Artist

Job, Occupation

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"You have to understand the nature of light."

"You have to understand the nature of light."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

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"Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors."

"Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors."

Kenneth Noland, American Artist

Influence, Artists, Mentors

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"My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted."

"My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted."

Georges Rouault, French Artist

Christian, Christ, Will

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"The '60s were an amazing time."

"The '60s were an amazing time."

Peter Max, American Artist

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"The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image."

"The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

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"Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture."

"Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture."

Otto Dix, German Artist

Art, Experience, Colors, Living

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"And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say."

"And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

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"What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation."

"What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation."

Hans Hofmann, German Artist

Art, Time, Imitation, Principles

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"I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."

"I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."

Marcel Duchamp, French Artist

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"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."

"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, Dutch Artist

Nature, Feeling, Language, Reality

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"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."

"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."

Roy Lichtenstein, American Artist

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"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."

"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

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"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."

"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."

Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist

19

"Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?"

"Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?"

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

Life, Earth, Succeed

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"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content."

"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content."

Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist

Content, Stress, Uniqueness

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"Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing."

"Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing."

Albrecht Dürer, German Artist

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"Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder."

"Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder."

Edvard Munch, Norwegian Artist

Health, Anxiety, Illness

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"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."

"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."

Frida Kahlo, Mexican Artist

Art, Consideration, Reality

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"So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic."

"So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

Storytelling, Magic, Service

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"Photography is a very important part of my life."

"Photography is a very important part of my life."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

Life, Photography

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"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

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"I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work."

"I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work."

Tony Conrad, American Artist

19

"Youth has no age."

"Youth has no age."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Positive, Age, Youth

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"It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed."

"It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

Art, Corporate, May

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"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

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"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."

"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."

Pierre Bonnard, French Artist

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"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."

"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

Art, Work, Emotion

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"With an apple I will astonish Paris."

"With an apple I will astonish Paris."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

Astonishment, Paris, Will

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"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."

"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

Photography, Shadows

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"Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist."

"Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist."

Kenneth Noland, American Artist

Perception, Being, Wrong

19

"Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?"

"Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?"

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Empathy, Understanding

19

"I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later."

"I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later."

Diego Rivera, Mexican Artist

Life, Fact, Years

19

"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

19

"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

19

"Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem."

"Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

Music, Shadows, Writing

19

"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."

"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."

Joshua Reynolds, English Artist

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"Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings."

"Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings."

Frank Stella, American Artist

People, Doctors, Lawyers, World

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"It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk."

"It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk."

Joshua Reynolds, English Artist

Rhetoric, Eloquence, Poor, Talk

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"When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government."

"When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government."

David Lloyd, British Artist

Government, Idea, Ideas, Force

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"Painting and writing are solitary arts."

"Painting and writing are solitary arts."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

Painting, Writing

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"Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems."

"Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

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"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."

"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."

Craig McCracken, American Artist

Television, Network

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