Quotes by Printmakers - Page 3

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.
Richard Diebenkorn
Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!
Paul Gauguin
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.
Jasper Johns
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not my wrath did grow.
William Blake
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
Eric Gill
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.
Paul Gauguin
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious individualistic unconventional sensitive irritable.
Robert Motherwell
It takes a very long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.
Pablo Picasso
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
William Blake
For I dance And drink and sing,Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.If thought is lifeAnd strength and breathAnd the wantOf thought is deathThen am IA happy flyIf I liveOr if I die
William Blake
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Pablo Picasso
My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.
Jasper Johns
The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo.
William Blake
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.
Graham Sutherland
I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.
Jasper Johns
Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.
Eric Gill
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
William Blake
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
Henri Matisse
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake
For me painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night a strangled laugh.
Georges Rouault
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William Blake
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Francisco de Goya
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
William Blake
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
Active evil is better than passive good
William Blake
Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.
William Blake
Dip him in the river who loves water.
William Blake
The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.
William Blake
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite.
William Blake
Answer this to yourselves, & expel from among you those who pretend to despise the labours of Art & Science, which alone are the labours of the Gospel: Is not this plain & manifest to the thought? Can you think at all, & not pronounce heartily! That to Labour in Knowledge. is to Build up Jerusalem: and to Despise Knowledge, is to Despise Jerusalem & her Builders. And remember: He who despises & mocks a Mental Gift in another; calling it pride & selfishness & sin; mocks Jesus the giver of every Mental Gift. which always appear to the ignorance-loving Hypocrite, as Sins. but that which is a Sin in the sight of cruel Man. is not so in the sight of our kind God.
William Blake
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
Henri Matisse
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
Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands.
William Blake
Vision is the end of religion.
William Blake
The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
William Blake
To find is the thing.
Pablo Picasso
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso
Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
Robert Motherwell
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
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch
There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find
William Blake
To see a World in a grain of sand,And a Heaven in a wild flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake
Art is much less important than life but what a poor life without it.
Robert Motherwell