Famous American Artists - Painters, Sculptors &
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Famous quotes and profiles of famous American artists
that are based in or born in the country of the
United States of America (USA). Artists include
painters, photographers, sculptors, designers, printmakers,
and more.
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep. |
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I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to
paint than to predict what the next painters will
do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of
order is very much in the air. |
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If a day goes by without my doing something related
to photography, it's as though I've neglected something
essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten
to wake up. |
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw. |
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+ Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our
horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits
of conventional wisdom. |
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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has
long been considered as one of the primary elements
of the composition. |
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I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because
a photograph doesn't give enough information about
what the person feels. |
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I decided to be more brave about what was coming
out. I used to draw that stuff in secret and throw
it away. Flush it down the toilet. I wanted to see
what the readership could take. |
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+ I get to do something I love to do for a living
and I don't have to do anything else, which is great. |
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+ Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are,
as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the
canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical.
He acts from or upon other artists. |
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In a successful painting everything is integral..
all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove
an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness. |
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+ My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily
about drawing. It's about making the best kind of
image I can make, it's about talking as clearly
as I can. |
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I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement
of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer
a sketch into a model into the building. |
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+ I am a night painter, so when I come into the
studio the next morning the delirium is over. I
come into the studio very fearfully, I creep in
to see what happened the night before. And the feeling
is one of, "My God, did I do that?". |
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+ My contribution to the world is my ability to
draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people
as I can for as long as I can. Drawing is still
basically the same as it has been since prehistoric
times. It brings together man and the world. It
lives through magic. |
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+ A work of art is a world in itself reflecting
senses and emotions of the artist's world. |
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I prefer every time a picture composed and painted
outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing
it. |
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+ Great art is the outward expression of an inner
life in the artist. |
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+ I tend to like things that already exist. |
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I didn't want to get into something which is played
out and narrow. I want to do as I like, invent my
own interests. |
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+ To me, it's not work. When I draw and I write,
I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5, where
a man goes to a job and he isn't really interested
in the job. Luckily, I get paid for doing what I'd
do for nothing. |
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What I paint touches on foundational life values.
Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages
I try to constantly get across is slow it down and
enjoy every moment. |
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The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any
other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? |
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I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically
involved in the production. I don't have the necessary
abilities, so I go to the top people.. |
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We get used to a certain kind of color of form or
format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that
is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty
soon, that's very acceptable. |
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+ I always say that I'm an artist who works with
pictures and words, so I think that the different
aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism,
or doing visual work that incorporates writing,
or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth,
and I don't make any separation in terms of those
practices. |
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I'm not really sure what social message my art carries,
if any. And I don't really want it to carry one.
I'm not interested in the subject matter to try
to teach society anything, or to try to better our
world in any way. |
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Thing about animation is there are people who associate
it more with being a visual art. I've actually always
thought of animation as more closely related to
the performing arts. So many of the same rules of
acting apply. In a lot of cases you don't have to
be a terrific artist. |
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I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography.
I like the object. I like the photographs when you
hold them in your hand. |
| Berthe
Morisot |
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+ It is important to express oneself...provided
the feelings are real and are taken from you own
experience. |
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Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening
interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm
still analyzing people. |
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The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think
about is the hard work it took to make them. |
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The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of
placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that
of nature. But I am also a sculptor of the West.
I place my mark and do not hide. |
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+ I found I could say things with color and shapes
that I couldn't say any other way--things I had
no words for. |
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+ I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical,
that does something other than sit on its ass in
a museum. |
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You're sitting there with your muse and your muse
is telling you something and you’re following
it, and you end up the next day looking at it and
thinking "what the hell was the muse saying
to me?" |
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Every good painter paints what he is. |
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A lot of it’s experimental, spontaneous. It's
about knocking about in the studio and bumping into
things. |
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+ I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's
been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters
have been very proud of paint and have let it behave
openly. |
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I tell young people that the greatest paintings
in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared
on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's
ear. It's that simple. |
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+ Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly
to either sights seen or experiences felt, other
times it just goes off on a tangent that you really
can’t articulate. |
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+ It is a widely accepted notion among painters
that it does not matter what one paints as long
as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. |
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+ Ever since I started painting, I have tried to
get the fluidity and surprise of image connection,
the simultaneity of film montage, into painting. |
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+ I do dream about art, and images come to me in
dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with
my subconscious. I expect a call any minute. |
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If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and
if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but
I'm not, so I draw cartoons! |
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I'm not precious about my work. If you get it out
into the urban field it's going to be used or misused
but it'll also probably provide a way of people
acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because
people have to confront it every day. |
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I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy
painters, as I refer to them. I always resented
that actually.. we were all getting the same amount
of press, but they were going gangbusters with sales. |
| John
Singer Sargent |
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+ Everytime I paint a portrait I lose a friend. |
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+ I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in
the art world, but it's hard to be old and like
what goes on around you. |
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I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to
get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well
as create performance art. |
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When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to
work can take any length of time. |
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Human beings have always been creative. The guys
who were making the pyramids.. and archaeological
research has showed us this.. had little figurines
made by the workers, to express their devotion to
their god. |
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Why do people think artists are special? It's just
another job.
+ Don't pay any attention to what they write about
you. Just measure it in inches. |
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It takes a long time for a man to look like his
portrait. |
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I realized that all the really good ideas I'd ever
had came to me while I was milking a cow. So I went
back to Iowa. |
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+ I know the price of success: dedication,
hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things
you want to see happen. |
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Artists today think of everything they do as a work
of art. It is important to forget about what you
are doing.. then a work of art may happen. |
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