Quotes by Printmakers - Page 4

A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William Blake
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake
All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.
Paul Gauguin
Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,Who countest the steps of the Sun:Seeking after that sweet golden climeWhere the traveller's journey is done. Where the Youth pined away with desire,And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow: Arise from their graves and aspire, Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.
William Blake
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
William Blake
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
William Blake
Thou art a manGod is no moreThy own humanityLearn to adore
William Blake
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
William Blake
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd
William Blake
He who mocks the infant's faithShall be mock'd in age and death.He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.He who respects the infant's faithTriumphs over hell and death.The child's toys and the old man's reasonsAre the fruits of the two seasons.- "Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)
Francisco de Goya
For Mercy has a human heart;Pity, a human face;And Love, the human form divine:And Peace the human dress.Songs of InnocenceCruelty has a human heartAnd jealousy a human face,Terror the human form divine,And secrecy the human dress.The human dress is forged iron,The human form a fiery forge,The human face a furnace seal'd,The human heart its hungry gorge.Songs of Experience - This poem was discovered posthumously.
William Blake
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
William Blake
When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
William Blake
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.
Pablo Picasso
A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro
The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.
William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
William Blake
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
Pablo Picasso
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
William Blake
Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
William Blake
A robin redbreast in a cagePuts all heaven in a rage.A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeonsShudders hell thro' all its regions.A dog starv'd at his master's gatePredicts the ruin of the state.A horse misused upon the roadCalls to heaven for human blood.Each outcry of the hunted hareA fibre from the brain does tear.A skylark wounded in the wing,A cherubim does cease to sing.The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fightDoes the rising sun affright.Every wolf's and lion's howlRaises from hell a human soul.- "Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
My mother groaned, my father wept,into the dangerous world I leapt.
William Blake
A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together.One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.
Jasper Johns
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.
William Blake
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
When nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree
William Blake
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
William Blake
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
William Blake
Expect poison from the standing water.
William Blake
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
Paul Gauguin
I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946
Henri Matisse
The cut worm forgives the plow.
William Blake
The only real influence I've ever had is myself.
Edward Hopper
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
Franz Marc
It took me a lifetime.
Pablo Picasso
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.
Pablo Picasso
Dignity is not a symbol bestowed on man, nor does the word itself possess force. Man's dignity is a force and the only modus vivendi by which man and his history survive. When mid-twentieth century Germany did not let man live and die with this right, man became an animal. No matter how technologically advanced or sophisticated, when man negates this divine right, he not only becomes self-destructive, but castrates his history and poisons our future. This is what 'The Nazi Drawings' are about.
Mauricio Lasansky
Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
A Robin Redbreast in a CagePuts all Heaven in a Rage.A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeonsShudders Hell thro’ all its regions.A Dog starv’d at his Master’s GatePredicts the ruin of the State.A Horse misus’d upon the RoadCalls to Heaven for Human blood.Each outcry of the hunted HareA fiber from the Brain does tear.
William Blake
It is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.
William Blake
I do not seek. I find.
Pablo Picasso
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
William Blake
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
William Blake
God is really 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
Choose only one master — Nature.
Rembrandt