Kutipan (Quote) - Art (10)

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst

A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Pierre Bonnard

Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Robert Motherwell

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert Indiana

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Max Eastman

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Thomas Wolfe

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
Louis Kahn

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Paul Strand

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen Key

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Carl Rogers

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
Robert Indiana

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
Robert Indiana

I paint with shapes.
Alexander Calder

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Alexander Calder