Artist Quotes

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.

Joshua Reynolds

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.

Martha Friedman

I make all this stuff in the studio, but I also work on these white elephants — like House or Untitled Monument — things that are incredibly ambitious, take an awful long time to do, involve a lot of controversy, an awful lot of people, and don't make any money particularly, but it's just because I need to make them.

Rachel Whiteread

Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.

When you are interested in life more than you are in painting, then your paintings can come to life.

I've painted for a very long time, but I don't get tired or bored by it; I love to do it. If I don't paint one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally. My eyes bother me when I don't paint. But when I paint a full day, I feel satisfied and everything seems to be OK. I would never stop, never retire. I don't see how people can retire; I don't understand that. My brother Moses died while he was painting. He was actually working on a painting, and the last words he said were to the model: "Phoebe, don't frown." Then he died. He worked to the very last minute.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

Walter Inglis Anderson

That's right! You're watching the DVD! So, the coolness of what the bowing man is doing is self-evident to you!

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

You don't have to agree with Trump but the mob can't make me not love him. We are both dragon energy.

Wait a minute, can't you? I've only got three hands.

Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

A death was more than an ending; it was like pulling a thread from a richly patterned cloth.

We have plenty of grass, and as we all know, dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.

Gilbert Shelton

Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.

It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.

Ezra Jack Keats

As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Jacob Getlar Smith

In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.

Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites.... There is a war between good and

Michael O'Brien (Canadian author)

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec