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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

Barry McGee

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

Ben Nicholson

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Ben Nicholson

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

Ben Nicholson

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Bridget Riley

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

Ben Shahn

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

Ben Shahn

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

Bill Viola

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

Clive Bell

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

Camille Claudel

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

Chuck Close

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

Chuck Close

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

Gilbert Hernandez

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do…

George Lois

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

Grandma Moses

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Grandma Moses

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

Georgia O'Keeffe

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

Georges Rouault