Quotes by Printmakers - Page 2

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
William Blake
How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?How can a child, when fears annoy,But droop his tender wing,And forget his youthful spring?
William Blake
He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
William Blake
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso
I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.
Henri Matisse
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
William Blake
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
Jasper Johns
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Pablo Picasso
Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.
Elizabeth Catlett
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.
William Blake
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.
Rembrandt
Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
William Blake
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
William Blake
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
Pablo Picasso
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare My business is to create.
William Blake
I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Pablo Picasso
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso
The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes only when he is not at work.
Eric Gill
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake
No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.
William Blake
Exactitude is not truth.
Henri Matisse
Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.
Walter Sickert
I give you the end of a golden string,Only wind it into a ball,It will lead you in at Heaven's gateBuilt in Jerusalem's wall.
William Blake
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
Henri Matisse
Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
William Blake
He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out.
William Blake
Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake
It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
I wander through each chartered street,Near where the chartered Thames does flow;A mark in every face I meet,Marks of weakness, marks of woe.In every cry of every man,In every infant’s cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged manacles I hear:How the chimney-sweeper’s cryEvery blackening church appals,And the hapless soldier’s sighRuns in blood down palace-walls.But most, through midnight streets I hearHow the youthful harlot’s curseBlasts the new-born infant’s tear,And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.
William Blake
Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
Jasper Johns
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.
William Blake
We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one.
William Blake
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
Pablo Picasso
I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I've a wife that I love and that loves me I've all but riches bodily.
William Blake
There's nothing more difficult than a line.
Pablo Picasso
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
Henri Matisse
Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
Rembrandt
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
William Blake
The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.
William Blake
How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?
William Blake
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into sun.
Pablo Picasso
I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.
Jasper Johns
Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
Pablo Picasso
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
Pablo Picasso
Truth exists. Only lies are invented.
Georges Braque
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
Pablo Picasso
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
Paul Gauguin
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.
Pablo Picasso