Artist Quotes

The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

A good cover has a distinct silhouette

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks.

.. Rising, shining, and finally scattering and fading. So until that moment comes when we vanish like fireworks... Lets us sparkle brightly, Always.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.

If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours.

It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;

the most massive characters are seared with scars.

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing.

Making your unknown known is the important thing.

Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture.

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

They always say time changes things. But you actually have to change them yourself.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs.

Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Change your thoughts, and in the twinkling of an eye, all your conditions change. Your world is a world of crystallized ideas, crystallized words. Sooner or later, you reap the fruits of your words and thoughts.

In time and with water, everything changes.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we have lost our connection to ourselves.

Life should be lived on the edge of life.

You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

I'll give you this strawberry if you keep it a secret. --L (Death Note)

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

If you get tired, learn to rest, not quit.

Infinite Spirit, open the way for my great abundance.

I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.