Artist Quotes

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context. ::: Joseph Beuys ::: Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. ::: Alice Neel ::: When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. ::: Cy Twombly ::: It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait. ::: James McNeill Whistler ::: All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. ::: Eckhart Tolle ::: I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion. ::: Euan Uglow ::: 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 ::: At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important. ::: M.C. Escher ::: I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else. ::: Giorgio Morandi ::: A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing. ::: William Dobell ::: The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it. ::: Banksy ::: To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. ::: Giorgio de Chirico ::: Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. ::: John Lennon ::: The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. ::: Bono ::: There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it. ::: Henry Moore :::  You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. ::: Renoir ::: 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 ::: Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. ::: Damien Hirst ::: Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. ::: Rumi ::: The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. ::: Michelangelo ::: Believe it or not, I can actually draw. ::: Jean Michel Basquiat ::: Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God. ::: Bob Marley ::: O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives. ::: Jim Morrison :::