Forum - Artists Quotes
Artists Quotes
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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
785 messages posted
United Kingdom
REFLECTIONS ON ART
"It is useful for an artist to know all forms of art which have preceded him. But must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes on another as a model,he is lost.
Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well trace a perfect circle. What I have to do is utilise as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fust and colour in my way the shadows they cast within me,illuminate them from inside.
And since from necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely manner."
PICASSO(c1948)
"It is useful for an artist to know all forms of art which have preceded him. But must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes on another as a model,he is lost.
Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well trace a perfect circle. What I have to do is utilise as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fust and colour in my way the shadows they cast within me,illuminate them from inside.
And since from necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely manner."
PICASSO(c1948)
785 messages posted
United Kingdom
Ooooopss !!! missed a word
" my painting will interpret things in an entirely DIFFERENT manner."
Sorry
" my painting will interpret things in an entirely DIFFERENT manner."
Sorry
372 messages posted
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"Those who do not want to imitate
anything, produce nothing."
-Salvador Dali
-Salvador Dali
785 messages posted
United Kingdom
" Why should a tool diminish the
value of art?
Might it not lead to new forms of art?
Optical technology has long been available for artists who want to use it; many have done so.
In my opinion, the use of optisal aids does not invalidate the quality of artwork. Talent and skill, the painter's eye and the artist's interpretation are always essential.
In fact, the artist who unites science and art enriches both, and should be cherished"
by SIDNEY PERKOWITZ
Might it not lead to new forms of art?
Optical technology has long been available for artists who want to use it; many have done so.
In my opinion, the use of optisal aids does not invalidate the quality of artwork. Talent and skill, the painter's eye and the artist's interpretation are always essential.
In fact, the artist who unites science and art enriches both, and should be cherished"
by SIDNEY PERKOWITZ
372 messages posted
United States of America
"If our titles recall the known
myths of antiquity, we have used
them again because they are the
eternal symbols upon which we must
fall back to express basic
psychological ideas."
-Mark Rothko
-Mark Rothko
103 messages posted
United Kingdom
Remember crime against property is
not real crime. People look at an
oil painting and admire the use of
brushstrokes to convey meaning.
People look at a graffiti painting
and admire the use of a drainpipe
to gain access.
-Banksy
-Banksy
785 messages posted
United Kingdom
I like the Banksy quote
Barb....hows the exhibition in
Worcester going?
785 messages posted
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" If one set's heart on grasping as
much as possible of what one sees,
beit in science or art, the
procedure is the same.
The scholar specialised in any field will find that the more he Knows the more he will have to learn, and never hope to reach full knowledge.
Besides full fnowledge would be death itself.
Art and science mean trying to understand.
Failure or success plays secondary role."
(1962) GIACOMETTI
The scholar specialised in any field will find that the more he Knows the more he will have to learn, and never hope to reach full knowledge.
Besides full fnowledge would be death itself.
Art and science mean trying to understand.
Failure or success plays secondary role."
(1962) GIACOMETTI
785 messages posted
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Failure or success plays secondary
role."
(1962) GIACOMETTI
All well and good but failure doesn't put the bread on the table or the roof over my head!!
(1962) GIACOMETTI
All well and good but failure doesn't put the bread on the table or the roof over my head!!
785 messages posted
United Kingdom
"I like the Banksy quote
Barb....hows the exhibition in
Worcester going?"
OOOPPs sorry Barb I got you mixed up with Cathy... so so sorry ..put down to a senior moment.
OOOPPs sorry Barb I got you mixed up with Cathy... so so sorry ..put down to a senior moment.
103 messages posted
United Kingdom
Hi Georgia,
I was just working out who you meant when I saw the second post...I'm prone to those sorts of moments too!
I was just working out who you meant when I saw the second post...I'm prone to those sorts of moments too!
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I'm Batman because I choose to be
not because I have to be
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The artist is a receptacle for
emotions that come from all over
the place; from the sky, from the
earth, from a scrap of paper, from
a passing shape, from a spider’s
web.
-Pablo Picasso
-Pablo Picasso
4 messages posted
United Kingdom
I'm Batman because I choose to be
not because I have to be
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United States of America
"Just because no one understands
you, does not make you an artist."
- Unknown
This has been my motto for the year! I think it's a great saying and really cuts to the chase.
This has been my motto for the year! I think it's a great saying and really cuts to the chase.
785 messages posted
United Kingdom
"Still lifes are always ready to
pose. They don't talk or get tired
or need to eat. They possess all
the qualities of form and color
that are needed to keep a painter
occupied for the rest of his life."
Robert Chunn
Robert Chunn
785 messages posted
United Kingdom
"I'm not trying to make paintings
look like photos.
I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented."
By Peter DOIG
I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented."
By Peter DOIG
134 messages posted
United Kingdom
For my part I know nothing with any
certainty, but the sight of the
stars makes me dream.
Van Gogh
Van Gogh
785 messages posted
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LEONARDO DA VINCI said:-
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."
"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."
"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
103 messages posted
United Kingdom
You can't please everyone, so you
may as well please yourself.
Paraphrasing a writer - Dion Fortune - rather than an artist, but still something that pops into my mind whenever I squint at something I'm working on and get caught up in the loop of thought which runs "maybe they'd prefer it if I just...."
Paraphrasing a writer - Dion Fortune - rather than an artist, but still something that pops into my mind whenever I squint at something I'm working on and get caught up in the loop of thought which runs "maybe they'd prefer it if I just...."
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