Famous Artist Quotes - Page 4

• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Real, Drawing

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Thinking, Creating

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• I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  God, Inspiration, Simple

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• With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Creativity, Mean

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• I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Beautiful, Powerful, Thinking

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• Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Art, Japan

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• Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

  Anne Truitt

  Love, Relationship, Discovery

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

  Alice Neel

  God, Art, Women

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• Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Art, Avant Garde, Simplify

  Ad Reinhardt, Marlborough Gallery (1970). “Ad Reinhardt: black paintings, 1951-1967”

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• Choose only one master - Nature.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Choices

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  Barnett Newman

  Art, Expression, Leaving

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• I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

  Peter Lik

  Success, Photography, Awards

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• Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

  Ai Weiwei

  Change, Thinking, Chinese

  Interview with Katie Hill, www.tate.org.uk. October 12, 2010.

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• The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By". Book by Mary Engelbreit, 1999.

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• In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.

  Richard Schmid

  Art, Self, Experience

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• If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Humor, Perspective, Painter

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• The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Funny, Women, Thinking

  Quoted in WChadwick Women, Art and Society (1990).

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• Where there is Peace, there is Culture; Where there is Culture, there is Peace.

  Nicholas Roerich

  Peace, Russia, Culture

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• When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Criticism, Together

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• I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

  Javier Bardem

  Art, Want, Heat

  "'Why am I doing this absurd job?'" by Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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• Don't think about making art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Thinking, Inspire Creativity

  Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

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• I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant.

  Fred Williams

  Art, Paint, Term

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• 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

  Art, Painting, Painter

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  George G. Stewart, Robert W. Hamblin, William Faulkner (2009). “Yoknapatawpha, images and voices: a photographic study of Faulkner's County, with passages from classic William Faulkner texts”, Univ of South Carolina Pr

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