Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Artists - Page 19

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

Me, personally, I'm just happy. I have a great mother. I have two great sisters. I couldn't ask for more. I'm healthy. I do what I love.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.

I don't follow anybody. I just flip through whatever Instagram sends me. I like to keep my algorithm pure, so I only ever like pictures of art. It's a rabbit hole for me because I'm a total voyeur.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

It's easy to feel like you don't have any control over yourself or your life or your body as a teen - everything is changing so fast, and a lot of it feels so outside of your power. I think that's why a lot of teens form really strong attachments to fictional characters or celebrities, draw their own characters or write themselves into fan fiction.

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Do whatever you do intensely.

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.

I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious.

Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

There are things that I am nostalgic about from the 'good old days.' I loved motion control cameras, actually. I love the way they sound. I used to do a lot of miniature work, and it's still warranted, but it's done less often, largely for budgetary, schedule, and flexibility reasons.

My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn.

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'

I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

Protect me from what I want.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.