|
Otto
Pacht |
Where
art is concerned, in the beginning was the eye not the word. |
|
Gordon
Parks |
I
saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against
racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that
point I had to have a camera. [1999 interview] |
|
Grayson
Perry |
We're
unhappy encountering artwork without knowing the "correct
interpretation" but we are all equally well qualified to
say "Yuk or Wow."
[The Times 2006] |
|
Pablo
Picasso |
I
paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. |
|
Pablo
Picasso |
In
order to draw, you must close your eyes and sing. |
|
Pablo
Picasso |
Painting
is just another way of keeping a diary. |
|
Pablo Picasso |
Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an
institution of war for
attack and defense against the
enemy. |
|
Pablo
Picasso |
Those
trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely wrong.
[Quoted in Picasso on Art edited by Dora Ashton] |
|
Pablo
Picasso |
The
purpose of art is to wash from the soul the dust of daily life. |
|
Pablo
Picasso |
Through
art we express our conception of what nature is not. |
|
Pablo
Picasso |
You
expect me to tell you what art is?
If I knew, I would keep that knowledge to myself. |
|
Camille
Pissarro |
It
is a grave error to believe that all mediums of art are not
closely connected to their time. |
|
Jackson
Pollock |
It
seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the
airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the
Renaissance or any other past culture. [1950 interview] |
|
Steve
Prefontaine |
Talent
is a myth. [In the 1998 biopic Without Limits] |
|
Marcel
Proust |
Only
through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what
another
person sees. |
