|
John
Cage |
If
my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is
not. |
|
Albert
Camus |
Without
culture . . . society, even when perfect, is no more than a
jungle. This is why every creation is a gift to the future. |
|
Al
Capp
(1909-79) |
Abstract
Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled
to the utterly bewildered. |
|
Henri
Cartier-Bresson |
To
me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction
of a second, of the significance of an event. |
|
Henri
Cartier-Bresson |
Degas
was right when he said something like ‘You must copy, copy
before you are entitled to paint a radish from nature.’
He meant you have to learn from others, from the past. .
. You need a sense of culture to cultivate yourself. [quoted
in New York Times Aug 20, 1995] |
|
Jules-Antoine
Castagnary |
There
is no need to return to history, to take refuge in legends, to
summon powers of imagination - Beauty is before the eyes - not
in the brain - in the present not in the past - in truth not in
dreams. |
|
Paul
Cézanne
(1839-1906) |
I
am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.
[Comment made as he abandoned a portrait of Ambrose Vollard
after 115 sittings] |
|
Paul
Cézanne |
You
should sit like an apple. Whoever saw an apple fidgeting?
[Ambrose Vollard, Recollections of a Picture Dealer, 1936] |
|
Paul
Cézanne |
Art
is a harmony that runs parallel to nature--what is one to think
of those imbeciles who say that thr artist is always inferior to
nature?
[Letter
to Emile Bernard, 1897] |
|
Paul
Cézanne |
A
work of art that did not begin in emotion is not art. |
|
Paul
Cézanne |
I
lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. |
|
Marc
Chagall
(1887-1985) |
Great
art picks up where nature ends. |
|
Chuck
Close |
I
always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that
the most important thing was problem creation. |
|
John
Constable |
It
will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky
is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ
of sentiment.
[letter to Archdeacon Fisher, 1821] |
|
John
Constable |
I
do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot
canvas.
[letter to Archdeacon Fisher, 1821] |
|
Alistair
Cooke |
I
prefer radio
to TV because the pictures are better. |
|
Holland
Cotter |
Art
is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status,
aggrandizing personalities. [New York Times, July 4,
2008] |
|
Gustave
Courbet |
When
I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important. |
|
Gustave
Courbet |
Show
me an angel, and I'll paint one! |
