20th-century Printmaker Quotes

Otto Dix

Elizabeth Catlett

Anni Albers

If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous.

I feel that as religion is a vocation for many people—and nuns and monks are solitary people—so art is a comparable vocation for artists because of the solitariness of our work.

Elisabeth Frink

But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

John Piper (artist)

Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

My artwork is about resistance, de-colonization, self-definition, self-empowerment and survival. I draw upon myths, family folklore, and indigenismo (a native way of being). I reinterpret and register all these as cultural, visual, iconographic manifestations of my identity. As the subject matter of my art, I exalt a lineage of women, energized from a sacred space of creation.

If a woman has her PhD in physics, has mastered quantum theory, plays flawless Chopin, was once a cheerleader, and is now married to a man who plays baseball, she will forever be "former cheerleader married to star athlete."

Maryanne Ellison Simmons

Advance is difficult and departure from the accepted path is dangerous; but difficulty and danger are old acquaintances.

Elizabeth Catlett