Quotes of: Picasso Keyword

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.

Bridget Riley

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

Beatrice Wood

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

Chuck Close

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

Chuck Close

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.

Ellsworth Kelly

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

Ellsworth Kelly

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Emil Nolde

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

Frank Auerbach

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

Hasan M. Elahi

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

Howard Finster

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

Hans Hofmann

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

Jasper Johns

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'

Jasper Johns

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

Jeff Koons

I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.

Kyle Abraham

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

Keith Haring

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

Leonard Baskin

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

Louise Bourgeois

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Lucian Freud

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.

Matthew Barney