Quotes of: Gogh Keyword

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

Barbara Kruger

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

Barry McGee

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

Ben Nicholson

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Ben Nicholson

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

Ben Nicholson

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

Ben Nicholson

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

Bob Ross

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Bridget Riley

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

Ben Shahn

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

Ben Shahn

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

Clive Bell

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

Chuck Close

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

Chuck Close

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

Chuck Close

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

Gertrude Jekyll

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

Grandma Moses

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Grandma Moses

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

Gustave Moreau

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe