Quotes of: Gogh Keyword

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Paul Cezanne

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

It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual.

Paul Simonon

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Raoul Dufy

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Robert Indiana

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Robert Motherwell

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

Sol LeWitt

The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.

The Art Spirit

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

The Art Spirit

Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.

The Art Spirit

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

The Art Spirit

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

The Art Spirit

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

Yves Tanguy

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

A Passion for Seeing: On Being an Image Maker

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...

Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

Donald Judd

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Emil Nolde

It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.

LeRoy Neiman

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

Paul Kane

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Henry Moore

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Mary Cassatt