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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
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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
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"Only put off until tomorrow what
you are willing to die having left
undone."
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.
It leads to sterility."
PABLO PICASSO
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"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.
It leads to sterility."
PABLO PICASSO
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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
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from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web."
Pablo Picasso
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"My artwork is never bad,
There's no right or wrong way,
My effort makes me feel glad,
I would draw anything,
an ocean or a bay.
Bright colors, lines are bold;
artwork is like gold."
-From an art student -
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There's no right or wrong way,
My effort makes me feel glad,
I would draw anything,
an ocean or a bay.
Bright colors, lines are bold;
artwork is like gold."
-From an art student -
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"The beautiful is in nature, and it
is encountered under the most
diverse forms of reality.
Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it."
GUSTAVE COURBET (1819-1877)
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Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it."
GUSTAVE COURBET (1819-1877)
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There are always two people in
every picture: the photographer and
the viewer.
Ansel Adams
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Ansel Adams
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Not everybody trusts paintings but
people believe photographs.
(Ansel Adams)
Oh how photoshop has changed that...
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(Ansel Adams)
Oh how photoshop has changed that...
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It’s all a big game of
construction, some with a brush,
some with a shovel, some choose a
pen.
Jackson Pollock
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Jackson Pollock
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So Jackson isn't alone in this
forum.....
All my work keeps going like a pendulum.. it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.
Lee Krasner
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All my work keeps going like a pendulum.. it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.
Lee Krasner
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I often wonder just what Lee
Krasner would have said to Jackson
Pollock after the crash that took
his life. What would that quote be?
Perhaps, "Oh, Jackson." Or would it
have been an ill tirate of how much
she loved him and he was null and
void of being able to break out of
his own coccoon and be the better
man.
The two of them have fascinated me as a couple for a long time. I guess since I saw the movie Pollock.
If anyone else has any thoughts on this, I would like to read it.
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The two of them have fascinated me as a couple for a long time. I guess since I saw the movie Pollock.
If anyone else has any thoughts on this, I would like to read it.
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Following on your theme of Color;
Fester, I found this quote...which
could be used in different
contexts...especially
conversations...
If one says "Red" – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.
(Josef Albers)
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If one says "Red" – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.
(Josef Albers)
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There are painters who transform
the sun into a yellow spot, but
there are others who, thanks to
their art and intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the
sun.
Pablo Picasso.
Hi Georgia, that quote about colour has been something that has cropped up many times as a photographic printer, it usualy starts about 'show me an apple red'!! And the whole can of worms about mental and visual colours breaks out!!!
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Pablo Picasso.
Hi Georgia, that quote about colour has been something that has cropped up many times as a photographic printer, it usualy starts about 'show me an apple red'!! And the whole can of worms about mental and visual colours breaks out!!!
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Your right Fester ; because when
you said apple; I first thought of
a 'russet' now is that red or is
rusty brown....
It is a can of worms!!!
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It is a can of worms!!!
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telephone box red, blood
red,rustred,sunsetred,robin breast
red,rubyred......
Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!
Josef Albers
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Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!
Josef Albers
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Its funny you quoted the one about
the cook I found that in a book the
other day, ....We have already
disscussed painting is like cooking
a Bit here, less there, a pinch
here, and a blob there,.......
somewhere on the forum last week.
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The term Red Shift has been used by
astronomers since, early in this
century, they noticed that the
light spectra of distant galaxies
shifted towards the red end of the
spectrum.....
I suggest that as memories about events recede, their "color" shifts towards the warm tones.
.....Elizabeth Barton.......
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I suggest that as memories about events recede, their "color" shifts towards the warm tones.
.....Elizabeth Barton.......
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"My job is to make images and leave
the decision-making and
conclusion-drawing to other
people."
"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."
--Laurie Anderson
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"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."
--Laurie Anderson
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"If art were to redeem man, it
could do so only by saving him from
the seriousness of life, and
restoring him to an unexpected
boyishness."
JOHN LENNON
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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.....
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.....Pablo Picasso.....
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