02.20.06
Art Quotes
Art Quotes
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
- Pablo Picasso
The most important tool the artist fashions through constant practice is faith in his ability to produce miracles when they are needed. Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. He is an outsider.
- Mark Rothko
Great designers innovate, good designers emulate.
- Mark Stosberg
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.
- Martha Graham
Talent and all that are really for the most part just baloney. Any schoolboy with a little aptitude can perhaps draw better than I; but what he lacks in most cases is that tenacious desire to make it reality, that obstinate gnashing of teeth and saying, “Although I know it can’t be done, I want to do it anyway
- Maurits Cornelius Escher
Lord, let me always desire more then I think I can do.
- Michelangelo
