Quotes of: Gogh Keyword

No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

H. R. Giger

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

Jasper Johns

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Louise Bourgeois

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

Martin Kippenberger

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

William Quigley

Those that don't believe how small my work is should just come along and see it for themselves.

Willard Wigan

Jimmy: Hey, Shakespeare! How's it going? Joe Turner: Terrific. I'm building up a great collection of rejection slips. Jimmy: [as he prepares Turner's lunch order] Yeah, I know the feeling. I always wanted to be Escoffier. Joe Turner: Well, maybe it's...

Three Days of the Condor

It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

An Eye for Color: The Story of Josef Albers

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Georg Baselitz

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Paul Cezanne

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Paul Cezanne

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

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

Bruce Nauman

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Luis Barragan

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

Arthur Boyd

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Albrecht Durer

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

Albrecht Durer

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

Anselm Kiefer

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

Barbara Kruger

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

Bob Kane