Quotes of: Picasso Keyword

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Vincent Van Gogh

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke

Vincent Van Gogh

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

William Morris Hunt

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

Wayne McGregor

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

Wayne McGregor

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

Wayne Thiebaud

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

Andy Goldsworthy

The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.

Antony Gormley

It's a wonderful thing to make work that is unadorned either by context, framing or label, that can exist in the changing conditions of light, weather, wind.

Antony Gormley

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Chuck Close

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Camille Pissarro

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

Damien Hirst

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

Frank Gehry

I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.

Fritz Scholder

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 think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

Richard Serra

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