Quotes of: Gogh Keyword

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

John James Audubon

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.

John James Audubon

Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.

Eva Braun

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

Emily Carr

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Eugene Delacroix

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

Eugene Delacroix

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

Edward Hopper

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

Edward Hopper

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

Edward Hopper

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

Ellsworth Kelly

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

Ben Nicholson

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

Bruce Nauman

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Barnett Newman

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

Bridget Riley

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

Bridget Riley

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Bridget Riley

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

Beatrice Wood

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

Beatrice Wood

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.

Chuck Close

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

Gustav Klimt

Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

Gerhard Richter