Artist Quotes

Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

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

Forget all the rules you ever learned
about graphic design.

Bob Gill (artist)

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

My butterfly-net and pocket magnifying-glass are rare companions for a walk in the country.

William Hamilton Gibson

Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol's advice, write down that today there's nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.

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

Jacob Getlar Smith

I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not going to be the masterpiece I thought it would be, and I start putting my hopes into the next work.

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

Joshua Reynolds

Robinson in Glen plaid jacket, Scotch-grain shoes, Black four-in-hand and oxford button-down, The jeweled and silent watch that winds itself, the briefcase, covert topcoat, clothes for spring, all covering His sad and usual heart, dry as a winter leaf.

I'm a sucker for tragedy - I love the death scenes.

I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.

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)

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

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.

In a land [India] where the pitris or spirits of the dead are believed to be flitting round continually, seeking rest, and inhabiting the bodies of animals and birds, it is easy to imagine the bold and familiar crow haunting houses,

John Lockwood Kipling

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

A toothache, not to be perverse, Is an unmitigated curse...

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

If the artist is not to lose much of his ancient purpose he may have to plunder the popular arts to recover the imagery which is his rightful inheritance.

Richard Hamilton (artist)

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.

Thornton Willis