As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance. (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
Artists Quotes
To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child… I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell; if it doesn’t turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it. . . I am no cleverer than […]
When you took time to really notice my flowers you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower…as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower – and I don’t.
If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint. (Wife of Pablo Picasso)
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
A sailor complained to Picasso that his paintings were not realistic, and then took out a tiny snapshot of his child for the painter to see. Picasso squinted seriously at the snapshot and handed it back to the father, merely saying, “Small, isn’t she?”
Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
A vandal is somebody who throws a brick through a window. An artist is somebody who paints a picture on that window. A great artist is somebody who paints a picture on the window and then throws a brick through it.
