Quotes of: Dali Keyword

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

Barbara Kruger

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

Bruce Nauman

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

Ben Shahn

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

Beatrice Wood

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

Beatrice Wood

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

Clive Bell

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Camille Claudel

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

Chuck Close

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

George Lois

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Harry Essex

To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country.

Hasan M. Elahi

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

Howard Hodgkin

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Howard Hodgkin

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

Howard Hodgkin

It’s better to do one thing well than ten things poorly.

Heather Hart

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Jackson Pollock

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Joshua Reynolds

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

John French Sloan

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

J. M. W. Turner