Quotes of: Van Keyword

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

Howard Hodgkin

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

Howard Hodgkin

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

Howard Hodgkin

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'

Howard Hodgkin

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

Helmut Jahn

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

Helmut Jahn

I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity. I'm a simple guy who works a lot.

Helmut Jahn

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Henri Matisse

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

Joni Mitchell

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

Julie Mehretu

My soul is like my worn-out Van Gogh t-shirt; threadbare and full of holes

J. Matthew Nespoli

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

Jackson Pollock

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Jackson Pollock

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Jackson Pollock

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

James Polshek

I'm interested in the gene bank of how Americans have built in different regions in different times.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

Joshua Reynolds

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

Joshua Reynolds

Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

Jeffrey Tate

I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.

Jeffrey Tate