Some of us come on earth seeing -- some of us come on earth seeing color. - Louise Nevelson
Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination! - Jacques Lipchitz
Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. - Albrecht Durer
Color possesses me. There is no need to seize it. It possesses me. I know. Here is the meaning of the happy moment: color and I are one. I am a painter. - Paul Klee
Our understanding is correlative to our perception. - Robert Delaunay
I don't say everything, but I paint everything. - Pablo Picasso
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. - Edward Hopper
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. - Henry Miller
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution. - Barbara Hepworth
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.' - Vincent van Gogh
The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. - Arthur Koestler
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. - Robert Delaunay
Remember, the work of art lives in the experience, the journey within the process, not in the resulting monument to be presented in a certified art-place. - Eric Booth
Every good painter paints what he is. - Jackson Pollock
I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them. - Robert Delaunay
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. - Paul Gauguin
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. - Jackson Pollock
If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone. - Franz Kline
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. - Joan Miro
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice. - Henri Matisse
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. - Edvard Munch
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. - Joan Miro
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually. - David Hockney
Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything. - Gail Sher
There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. - George Eliot
I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine. - Lucian Freud
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin
Art teaches nothing except the significance of life. - Henry Miller
The nature of anguish is translated into different forms. - Franz Kline
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now. - David Hockney
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. - Edvard Munch
But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors. - Robert Delaunay
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. - Vincent van Gogh
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. - Paul Gauguin
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. - Salvador Dali
You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples. - William Morris Hunt
Someone said of Bonnard that he had the rare ability to forget from one day to another what he had done - added the next day's experience to it - like a child following a balloon. - Franz Kline
My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it. - Vincent van Gogh
The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. - Albert Pinkham Ryder
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. - Andy Warhol
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. - Pablo Picasso
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere. - Tom Peters
It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become. - Audrey Flack
My work is purely autobiographical.. It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know. - Lucian Freud
I hold to the doctrine that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. - Thomas Buxton
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe. - Robert Delaunay
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special gift. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-critique, have brought me my ideas. - Albert Einstein
We grow small trying to be great. - David Hockney
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day. - Winston Churchill
Art washes from the soul the dust of every day life. - Pablo Picasso
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. - David Hockney
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. - Michelangelo
It?s all a big game of construction, some with a brush, some with a shovel, some choose a pen. - Jackson Pollock
Oh I kept on, I mean I've always drawn. I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. - David Hockney
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood. - David Hockney
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. - Salvador Dali
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. - David Hockney
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. - Joan Miro
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. - Claude Monet
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Vincent van Gogh
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto , the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. - David Hockney
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Edgar Degas
Art without color would lose much of its purpose. - Andrew Loomis
Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing;; it is the function of the ego of every human being. - Silvano Arieti
And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh. - David Hockney
I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. You could do that then. - David Hockney
Form is the outward expression of inner meaning. - Wassily Kandinsky
The chief function of color should be to serve expression. - Henri Matisse
A picture is a work of art, not because it is "modern," nor because it is "ancient," but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling. - John Carlson
There is no state of final fulfillment; each change opens new doors and ushers in new possibilities. - Margo Adair
It doesn't matter how badly you paint as long as you don't paint badly like other people. - George Moore
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. - Andy Warhol
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. - Salvador Dali
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. - Salvador Dali
Movement is produced by the rapport of odd elements, of the contrasts of colors between themselves which constitutes Reality. - Robert Delaunay
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. - Barbara Hepworth
From all that I have seen I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, it must represent, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. - Raphael Soyer
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! - Paul Gauguin
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. - David Hockney
Be sensitive to your sensitive inner capacities to respond to color. - Nathan Cabot Hale
Clarity will be color, proportion; these proportions are composed of diverse elements, simultaneously involved in an action. - Robert Delaunay
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. - Lucian Freud
The meaning of a figurative work of art lies in its abstract organization. - Frederick Gore
You can't express inspiration without skill. - Stephen Nachmanovich
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not. - Barbara Hepworth
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. - Henry Miller
First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm. - Robert Delaunay
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. - David Hockney
Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension. - Joan Miro
Color is so much a matter of direct and immediate perception that any discussion of theory needs to be accompanied by experiments with the colors themselves. - Walter Sargent
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. I'm only trying to do what I can't do. - Lucian Freud
We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves. - Arthur Dove
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. - Gail Sheehy
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. - Robert Delaunay
I don't believe in art, I believe in artists. - Marcel Duchamp
We are enveloped and drenched in the marvelous, but we do not see. - Baudelaire
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. - Salvador Dali
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary. - Robert Delaunay
Great art picks up where Nature ends. - Marc Chagall
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. - David Hockney
If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture. - Robert Delaunay
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. - Robert Delaunay
Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. - David Hockney
The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw. - Humphrey Davy
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. - David Hockney
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. - Jacques Lipchitz
Talent is long patience. - Gustave Flaubert
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. - Edvard Munch
You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color. - Vincent van Gogh
The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose "gift" is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential. - Joseph Zinker
In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory. - Robert Delaunay
Body experience... is the centre of creation. - Barbara Hepworth
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. - Henri Matisse
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. - David Hockney
Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting. - Winston Churchill
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end. - Ursula le Guin
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years. - David Hockney
Part of what I'm about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way. - Alex Katz
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. - David Hockney
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. - Paul Gauguin
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. - Andy Warhol
My works are an imitation of my own past and present. - Barbara Hepworth
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilsed. - Adolf Hitler
The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift. - Johannes Itten
Fine works of art never grow old because the one thing that stamps them is feeling. - Eug?ne Delacroix
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. - Andy Warhol
For me, every man distinguishes himself by his essence his personal movement, as opposed to that which is universal. - Robert Delaunay
I paint for myself. I don?t know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself. - Francis Bacon
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. - Henri Matisse
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. - Hans Hofmann
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. - Paul Gauguin
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. - Andy Warhol
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? - Franz Kline
I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create. - Barbara Hepworth
In the Polaroid, the Polaroid develops as you take it. You see it, and you put it down and I make another and make another. - David Hockney
Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view. - Jacques Lipchitz
My hands were too soft. I had to find some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life. - Marc Chagall
The method of painting is the natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. - Jackson Pollock
It is not quantity which counts with colors, but choice and organization. - Henri Matisse
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism. - Robert Delaunay
I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can. - Andy Warhol
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. - Michelangelo
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. - Paul Gauguin
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began. - Lloyd Alexander
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. - David Hockney
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. - Barbara Hepworth
If it sells, it's art. - Frank Lloyd
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. - Robert Delaunay
But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well. - David Hockney
Looking is a gift, but seeing is a power. - Jeff Berner
Never leave a painting mediocre; it's better to take a chance with it. - Guy Corriero
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. - Paul Gauguin
We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually. - Beaumont Newhall
I wished to suggest by means of a simple nude, a certain long-lost barbaric luxury. - Paul Gauguin
Great art picks up where Nature ends. - Marc Chagall
Anything simple always interests me. - David Hockney
An amateur is someone who supports themselves with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose spouse works to enable them to paint. - Ben Shahn
Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid. - Barbara Hepworth
Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done. - Rudolf Flesch
Art happens. No hovel is safe from it, no prince can depend on it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about. - James A. M. Whistler
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. - Paul Gauguin
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. - Robert Delaunay
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. - Salvador Dali
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. - Joan Miro
Nature engenders the science of painting. - Robert Delaunay
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. - Paul Gauguin
