Printmaker Quotes

Francisco Goya

Edvard Munch

J. M. W. Turner

Mary Cassatt

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Otto Dix

Edward Hopper

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

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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

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

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

Imagination deserted by reason creates monstrosities. United with reason, imagination gives birth to great marvels and true art.

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

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

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.

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

J. M. W. Turner

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

John Piper (artist)

I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.

Though I studied with Robert Henri, I was never a member of the Ash-Can School. You see, it had a sociological trend which didn't interest me.

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

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.