Quotes of: Gogh Keyword

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Sigmar Polke

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

Sean Scully

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

Thomas Kinkade

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

Takashi Murakami

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

The Art Spirit

Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done.

The Art Spirit

We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.

The Art Spirit

Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

William Morris Hunt

When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix

If I could go back in time, I'd love to whisper sweet nothings in Van Gogh's ear, but not while it was attached to his head.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

It’s very hard to whisper in your own ear. Love is an art, but as an artist, I guess I’m no Van Gogh.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Women love to talk. I'll bet Van Gogh had a woman. And I'll bet she talked his ear off.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

The Writings of a Savage

...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.

The Writings of a Savage

I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

John James Audubon

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Agnes Martin: Writings

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.

Norman Rockwell

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

Norman Rockwell

The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

Norman Rockwell

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Paul Cezanne

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

Philip Guston