Quotes of: Van-halen Keyword

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Arthur Erickson

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

Arthur Erickson

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

Alberto Giacometti

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

Alberto Giacometti

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

Anselm Kiefer

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

Anselm Kiefer

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.

Ann Macbeth

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

Annette Messager

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.

Art Tatum

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

Andrew Wyeth

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Robert Motherwell

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

William Morris Hunt

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

Wayne Thiebaud

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

Zubin Mehta

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

Zubin Mehta

American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

Zubin Mehta

I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.

Zubin Mehta

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Chuck Close

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Camille Pissarro

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

Damien Hirst