Quotes of: Van-halen Keyword

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Edward Hopper

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Edward Hopper

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Edward Steichen

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

Frida Giannini

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

Fred Tomaselli

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

Georg Baselitz

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Gustave Courbet

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

Gustave Courbet

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Hans Hofmann

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

John James Audubon

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

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

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

Thomas Kinkade