Quotes of: Picasso Keyword

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

Anselm Kiefer

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

Ai Weiwei

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

Barbara Kruger

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.

Bob Kane

I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.

Barry McGee

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Clive Bell

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

Camille Claudel

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

Chuck Close

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Camille Pissarro

The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.

Clifford Ross

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

Damien Hirst

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

Damian Loeb

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

Damian Loeb

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Edward Hopper

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Edward Hopper

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

Elizabeth Peyton

I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.

Elizabeth Peyton

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

Frank Stella

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

Frank Stella

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

Frank Stella