Quotes of: Van Keyword

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Pablo Picasso

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Pablo Picasso

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Pablo Picasso

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Pablo Picasso

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

Richard Diebenkorn

It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Robert Henri

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

Robert Indiana

No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

Skrillex

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

Sol LeWitt

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

Sol LeWitt

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

Sol LeWitt

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

Sebastiao Salgado

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

Shahzia Sikander

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Thomas Beecham

How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

Thomas Cole

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

Kevin Eubanks

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

Kurt Masur

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

Kenneth Noland

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

Kenneth Noland

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Luis Barragan

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

Leonora Carrington