Forum - Artists Quotes
Artists Quotes
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United States of America
Wisdom from fellow spirits!
I'll start with a few:
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
–Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
-Diego Rivera
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
- Andrew Wyeth
I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
-Mark Rothko
I certainly hope to sell in the course of time, but I think I shall be able to influence it most effectively by working steadily on, and that at the present moment making desperate efforts to force the work I am doing now upon the public would be pretty useless.
-Vincent van Gogh
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
-Isaac Asimov
I'll start with a few:
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
–Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
-Diego Rivera
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
- Andrew Wyeth
I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
-Mark Rothko
I certainly hope to sell in the course of time, but I think I shall be able to influence it most effectively by working steadily on, and that at the present moment making desperate efforts to force the work I am doing now upon the public would be pretty useless.
-Vincent van Gogh
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
-Isaac Asimov
661 messages posted
United States of America
He was far from boring. He just
wasn't very quotable. Least ways,
nothing I can remember off the top
of my head.
1101 messages posted
United Kingdom
Work is the scourge of the drinking
classes - Oscar Wilde
1101 messages posted
United Kingdom
Love that one, another favorite of
mine is:
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly - Winston Churchill
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly - Winston Churchill
661 messages posted
United States of America
"I'm fat, you're ugly! I can lose
weight." Orson Welles to future
exonerated wife murderer Robert
Blake on the Tonight Show.
1101 messages posted
United Kingdom
Nice!
27 messages posted
Canada
"Work isn't to make money; you work
to justify life."
-Marc Chagal
"There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it. "
-H.R Giger
"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time. "
-Willem de Kooning
"No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles. "
-Yoko Ono
Warhol has a ton of great quotes ("I like boring"). They aren't so introspective as some others.. but they are clever, and rather funny in a sad way...
-more Warhol:
"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest."
- Andy Warhol
"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships."
-Andy Warhol
-Marc Chagal
"There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it. "
-H.R Giger
"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time. "
-Willem de Kooning
"No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles. "
-Yoko Ono
Warhol has a ton of great quotes ("I like boring"). They aren't so introspective as some others.. but they are clever, and rather funny in a sad way...
-more Warhol:
"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest."
- Andy Warhol
"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships."
-Andy Warhol
661 messages posted
United States of America
Sounds like Yoko was having guilt
pangs when she said that. I know
she has a singing voice that can
break up solid matter. Might even
be capable of splitting the atom.
lol
1101 messages posted
United Kingdom
Yeah right! I never understood what
John saw in her, probably thought
they were equally matched
creatively - all a bit pretentious
if you ask me.
661 messages posted
United States of America
There was a special on PBS
recently, an old concert hosted by
the Rolling Stones and John Lennon,
done up like a traveling carnival.
Very hokey, early 70's stuff(floppy
hats, ponchos, flower in the ear).
The music wasn't too bad, with a
lot of great guests(Jethro Tull).
Then Yoko came out in full screech.
Even with all the drugs in him, I
think Lennon felt embarrassed. Her
"artwork" isn't much better than
her singing, either.
68 messages posted
Spain
shakespeare - "I am not bound to
please thee with my answers".
93 messages posted
Canada
What would Yoko have pangs of guilt
over? She felt guilty over the bad
feelings people heaped on her?
People not understanding her art?
John was far from embarrassed with Yoko's performance (which he had to reassure her to do). He was loving it. At the end of the piece, John smiles and jumps with joy like a little kid. Watch the violinist react to Yoko. His reaction going from shock and upset, to going along with it is great.
The made for TV show is called Rock and Roll Circus and is available on DVD.
John was far from embarrassed with Yoko's performance (which he had to reassure her to do). He was loving it. At the end of the piece, John smiles and jumps with joy like a little kid. Watch the violinist react to Yoko. His reaction going from shock and upset, to going along with it is great.
The made for TV show is called Rock and Roll Circus and is available on DVD.
93 messages posted
Canada
"I knew what I was doing. I was
aggravated by the fact that nobody
understood it. I was reading from
my inspiration and that's my life."
- Yoko Ono
"I never thought we should repeat. Repeating is just like water when it stops flowing, it becomes muddy." - Yoko Ono
"At least I had that, one guy understood me." - Yoko Ono
"I never thought we should repeat. Repeating is just like water when it stops flowing, it becomes muddy." - Yoko Ono
"At least I had that, one guy understood me." - Yoko Ono
68 messages posted
Spain
H.P. Lovecraft - Almost nobody
dances sober unless they happen to
be insane.
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Spain
H.P. Lovecraft - the most merciful
thing in the world, is the
inability of the human mind to
correlate all its contents.
93 messages posted
Canada
"It's all the unwordable things one
wants to write about, just as it's
all the unformable things one wants
to paint – essence." - Emily Carr
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." - Pablo Picasso
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." - Pablo Picasso
661 messages posted
United States of America
"At the end of the piece, John
smiles and jumps with joy like a
little kid." - Antony Burt
The coke must have kicked in!
I wasn't crazy about the show. It seemed incredibly staged, and most of the performances were flat. I don't think it was that great an idea to take these legendary live stage acts, and force them into this peace, love and understanding dog and pony show, with commercial breaks. Gimme Shelter or Woodstock were much more animated and realistic.
The coke must have kicked in!
I wasn't crazy about the show. It seemed incredibly staged, and most of the performances were flat. I don't think it was that great an idea to take these legendary live stage acts, and force them into this peace, love and understanding dog and pony show, with commercial breaks. Gimme Shelter or Woodstock were much more animated and realistic.
93 messages posted
Canada
It wasn't the coke, it was the joy.
Plain and simple.
The concert was a fantastic idea, but the implementation was horrid. Legal problems, delays, retakes and emotional trauma took it's toll on the performers.
The concert was a fantastic idea, but the implementation was horrid. Legal problems, delays, retakes and emotional trauma took it's toll on the performers.
785 messages posted
United Kingdom
"I did not paint it to be
understood, but I wished to show
what such a scene was like; I got
the sailors to lash me to the mast
to observe it; I was lashed for
four hours , and I did not expect
to escape, but I felt bound to
record it if I did."
J M W Turner
J M W Turner
785 messages posted
United Kingdom
"You might be in there for only a
few seconds -in real time- but your
head it goes on for hours. It is an
experience that's hard to describe,
riding inside of a big grinding
wave. Often you're riding so deep
inside the tube,you dont make it
out.You take a terrible wipe out.
What matters when you're in there,It's the time interval when you're inside the wave. Time enters space, A zone of its own. The only reality is what's happening right then."
By George Greenhough ( photographer, filmaker)
What matters when you're in there,It's the time interval when you're inside the wave. Time enters space, A zone of its own. The only reality is what's happening right then."
By George Greenhough ( photographer, filmaker)
93 messages posted
Canada
Art will remain the most
astonishing activity of mankind
born out of struggle between wisdom
and madness, between dream and
reality in our mind.
- Magdalena Abakanowicz
- Magdalena Abakanowicz
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