Quotes of: Gogh Keyword

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Claude Monet

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Camille Pissarro

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

Camille Pissarro

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

Cy Twombly

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

Cy Twombly

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946

Henri Matisse

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

John James Audubon

Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.

John James Audubon

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Jim Carrey

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

Diego Rivera

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

Eva Braun

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Edward Hopper

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

Ellsworth Kelly

I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.

Ellsworth Kelly

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

Ellsworth Kelly

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

Ellsworth Kelly

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

Ellsworth Kelly

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

Ellsworth Kelly

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

Barbara Kruger