Quotes by Women Artists

Empty empty empty
so many empty chairs
everywhere. They look
charming in van Gogh's paintings.

It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the result of an intuitive process, drawing on all that the artist is rather than on anything he thinks, far less theorizes about.

Art must be the quintessence of meaning. Creative art means that you create yourself.

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.

Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.

All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight.

Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.

Vera Stanley Alder
Vera Stanley Alder
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

If there are singles who find the waters of singleness dark and deep, who feel, 'I sink in deep waters; the billows go over my head; all his waves go over me,' this is my message to you concerning singleness: Be of good cheer, my brother, my sister; I feel the bottom, and it is good.

The wonderful thing about being an artist is that there is no end to creative expression. Painting is my life; my life is painting.

Lois Mailou Jones
Lois Mailou Jones
I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

Clementine Hunter
Clementine Hunter