|
Stuart
Davis |
Jazz
always plays a part in my inspiration, because I always think of
it as art, and think well if they can do it, maybe I can too.
Only I’m making a painting. |
|
Giorgio
de Chirico |
To
become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human
limits; logic and common sense will only interfere. |
|
Degas |
Art
is not what you see, but what you make others see. |
|
Degas |
A
painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some
fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring
people. |
|
Willem
de Kooning |
I
like a nice, juicy, greasy surface. |
|
Delacroix |
What
creates men of genius - or, rather, what they themselves create
- is not new ideas.
It is the obsessive notion that what has been said has
still not been said enough. |
|
Jeremy
Deller
(2004 Turner Prize
winner) |
Art
isn't about what you make but what you make happen. |
|
Maurice
Denis
(1870-1943) |
Before
a picture is a war horse, a female nude or some anecdote it is
essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a
certain order. (from
Art
et Critique 1890) |
|
Maurice
Denis |
Art
is when things appear rounded. |
|
Nicolette
Devas |
The
sitter must give himself over to the artist and offer him the
freedom to research into his hidden secret character, so that
while the brush explores the nostril it also describes the soul.
(from
Two
Flamboyant Fathers, 1966) |
|
Thomas
Dewar |
Minds
are like parachutes. They only function when open. |
|
Diderot |
You
can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much
as and more than a writer does in his. (Salons) |
|
Arthur
Dove |
I
would like to make something that is real in itself, that does
not remind anyone of any other thing, that does not have to be
explained like the letter A, for instance. |
|
Marcel
Duchamp |
In
the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops
that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of
posterity. |
|
Marcel
Duchamp |
I'm
not at all sure that the concept of the ready-made isn't the
most important single idea to come out of my work. |
|
Marcel
Duchamp |
I
threw the bottle rack and the urinal into to their faces as a
challenge, and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty. |
|
P.
Duncum |
Art
opens doors; equally it establishes the doorframe. (1951) |
