Quotes by Printmakers - Page 2

Art upsets science reassures.
Georges Braque
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
Henri Matisse
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious individualistic unconventional sensitive irritable.
Robert Motherwell
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
Pablo Picasso
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
Leonard Baskin
Art is much less important than life but what a poor life without it.
Robert Motherwell
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into sun.
Pablo Picasso
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage.
William Blake
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not my wrath did grow.
William Blake
He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
William Blake
It is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.
William Blake
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
William Blake
I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
Pablo Picasso
I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.
Pablo Picasso
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
William Blake
What is Above is Within ... the Circumference is Winthin, Without is formed the Selfish Center, and the Circumference still expands going forward to Eternity.
William Blake
Dip him in the river who loves water.
William Blake
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.
William Blake
Imitation is criticism.
William Blake
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946
Henri Matisse
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.
Jasper Johns
It took me a lifetime.
Pablo Picasso
The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes only when he is not at work.
Eric Gill
El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)
Francisco de Goya
The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
Henri Matisse
Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
Robert Motherwell
Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.
Richard Diebenkorn
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
Henri Matisse
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
Eric Gill
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
William Blake
The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.
William Blake
Vision is the end of religion.
William Blake
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
Pablo Picasso
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.
William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite.
William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
William Blake
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
William Blake
To find is the thing.
Pablo Picasso
...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.
Paul Gauguin
Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd
William Blake
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.
William Blake
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
William Blake
Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
William Blake
There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find
William Blake
It is right it should be so;Man was made for joy and woe;And when this we rightly know,Thro' the world we safely go.Joy and woe are woven fine,A clothing for the soul divine.Under every grief and pineRuns a joy with silken twine.- "Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
The emmet's inch and eagle's mileMake lame philosophy to smile.He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.- "Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
A robin redbreast in a cagePuts all heaven in a rage.A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeonsShudders hell thro' all its regions.A dog starv'd at his master's gatePredicts the ruin of the state.A horse misused upon the roadCalls to heaven for human blood.Each outcry of the hunted hareA fibre from the brain does tear.A skylark wounded in the wing,A cherubim does cease to sing.The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fightDoes the rising sun affright.Every wolf's and lion's howlRaises from hell a human soul.- "Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
He who mocks the infant's faithShall be mock'd in age and death.He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.He who respects the infant's faithTriumphs over hell and death.The child's toys and the old man's reasonsAre the fruits of the two seasons.- "Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & de
William Blake
For Mercy has a human heart;Pity, a human face;And Love, the human form divine:And Peace the human dress.Songs of InnocenceCruelty has a human heartAnd jealousy a human face,Terror the human form divine,And secrecy the human dress.The human dress is forged iron,The human form a fiery forge,The human face a furnace seal'd,The human heart its hungry gorge.Songs of Experience - This poem was discovered posthumously.
William Blake