Quotes by Artists - Page 3

Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita Kent
Two and two continue to make four in spite of the whine of the amateur for three or the cry of the critic for five.
James McNeill Whistler
Now I really make the little idea from clay and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it look at it from underneath see it from one view hold it against the sky imagine it any size I like and really be in control almost like God creating something.
Henry Moore
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.
Gelett Burgess
I never saw a Purple Cow I never hope to see one: But I can tell you anyhow I'd rather see than be one.
Gelett Burgess
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable.
Louise Nevelson
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.
Louise Nevelson
I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol
For good and evil man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Joyce Cary
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.
Marcel Duchamp
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Joan Miró
An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
Ben Shahn
Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
Tao Ho
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.
Kimon Nicolaides
Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing I realize how extraordinary it is sheer miracle.
Frederick Franck
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
Thomas Gold Appleton
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
Henry Moore
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran
So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves instead of letting them alter us.
Mother Maribel
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
Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?
Kahlil Gibran
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Louise Nevelson
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
William Van Home
Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt.
William Van Horne
I don't know any Baptists who don't want to see folks get saved… you start winning folks to the Lord and baptizing them… They'll pretty well put up were [your methods].
Richard Hogue
Sqwaak!" from Fletcher, the environmental crime fighting parrot in The Big Belch graphic novel by Kay Wood.
Kay Wood
She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. That sort that normally came in a black bottle and was called something like SHOCK or EXCITE or BLUNT TRAUMA.
Maggie Stiefvater
Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did.
Maggie Stiefvater
Once upon a time, “that woman” seemed more comfortable with herself. Once upon a time, “that woman” appreciated a slimmer physique and relaxed into natural poses that felt less rehearsed. Once upon a time, “that woman” matched the path she had laid out for herself. Her closed eyes now threatened to open at any second, her tight skin bursting with the artificial flavors and toxins she had been assured were good for her. “That woman” had surrendered herself to anything that would make her path clear. “That woman” expected everyone to buy into the lies that she did. Her self-worth depended on it. So would mine.
Cherry Tigris
The Persian rug served as their country. The brawnier toilet paper people opted to live in its jade green jungles while the more sensitive and reflective toilet paper people preferred hiding in its opal cream sky. They were so light. No one would ever be able to tell that they had lived there.
Cherry Tigris
Still on speaking terms with the Toilet Paper People, they consented to a box full of Legos that overnight manifested itself into a recording studio. I quickly remembered the power of my hands, my imagination, my will, and my conscience. These were tools I would never let myself get bored with. I would find myself in Blue Ocean Strategy and in other defining ways.
Cherry Tigris
The Persian rug served as their country with people living injade green jungles and others living in an opal cream sky.They were so light. No one would ever be able to tell thatthey had lived there.
Cherry Tigris
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.
Kahlil Gibran
Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
Austin Kleon
i want to remember
Maggie Stiefvater
If Satan showed up in your room, you don’t have to be afraid of him; he’s not a factor. He and his agents of darkness are under your feet; you are superior to them!
Paul Silway
when you is precious to God, you is important to Satan. Watch your backside, somethin’ is gettin’ ready to happen
Denver Moore
Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.
Zeena Schreck
There is a path for each of us. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. We know the next right action―Although not necessarily what is just around the bend.
Julia Cameron
Because it wasn't merely that the trees were speaking to them. It was that the trees themselves were sentient beings, capable of watching their movements. Was it only the trees in this strange wood, or did every tree observe their movements? Had they always been trying to speak to them? There was no way of knowing, either, if the trees were good of bad, if they lived or hatred humans, if they had principles or compassion. They were like aliens, Gansey thought. Aliens that we have treated very badly for a very long time.
Maggie Stiefvater
Post-adolescent Expert SyndromeThe tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.
Douglas Coupland
They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you seven years for?''Being Gulley Jimson,' I said, 'and getting away with it.
Joyce Cary
The end is never worth the beginning.
Vali Myers
Why say then Buddha never carried gun? he didn't play piano, we do not know of him making pictures either.
Suman Pokhrel
You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
Andy Warhol
It's everything and nothing ... It's like the absent moment between night and day.
Sophie Hardcastle
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
Kahlil Gibran
I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff
There’s never enough time for all the naps you want.
Carolyn V. Hamilton
There are no rules. That is how art is born.
Helen Frankenthaler
The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.
Nuno Roque
I stepped forward as commanded, wondering which of the many rules I had broken now.
Georg Rauch
He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
Kahlil Gibran
It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream.
David Lynch
Cinema is a language. It can say things—big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not always good with words. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words. But cinema is its own language. And with it you can say so many things, because you’ve got time and sequences. You’ve got dialogue. You’ve got music. You’ve got sound effects. You have so many tools. And you can express a feeling and a thought that can’t be conveyed any other way. Its a magical medium. For me, it’s so beautiful to think about these pictures and sounds flowing together in time and in sequence, making something that can be done only through cinema. Its not just words or music-it’s a whole range of elements coming together and making something that didn’t exist before. It’s telling stories. It’s devising a world, an experience, that people cannot have unless they see that film. When I catch an idea for a film, I fall in love with the way cinema can express it. I like a story that holds abstractions, and that’s what cinema can do.
David Lynch
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
Peter Greenaway