Quotes of: Van Keyword

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

Paul Simonon

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

Raoul Dufy

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Robert Henri

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

Sol LeWitt

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

Sol LeWitt

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

The Art Spirit

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

Jenny Holzer

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

Keith Haring Journals:

Truth must be found in reality, not systems.

What Is Art?: Conversations with Joseph Beuys

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

Henry Moore

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

Neville Marriner

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

Neville Marriner

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

Norman Rockwell

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

Otto Dix

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

Philip Warren Anderson

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

Paul Cezanne

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

Paul Cezanne

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Paul Cezanne

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Paul Gauguin

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Paul Gauguin

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Philip Guston