Quotes of: Picasso Keyword

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

Jacob Epstein

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

Jenny Holzer

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Joshua Reynolds

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

John Singer Sargent

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

Michael Heizer

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Philip Guston

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Paul Klee

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

Robert Smithson

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Robert Smithson

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Robert Smithson

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

Sol LeWitt

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

Sol LeWitt

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

Thomas Heatherwick

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

Thomas Kinkade

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

The Art Spirit

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Moral Essays, Volume III: de Beneficiis

I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.

Cathy Guisewite

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.

Joni Mitchell

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

John James Audubon