ARTIST'S QUOTATIONS

«We are not waiting for any moment, we are simply living this moment as fully as we can.»
Yoko Ono

«A few lines, a few strokes, a little color sometimes – and they are masterpieces.»
Käthe Kollwitz

«My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.»
Pablo Picasso

«I am a photographer and I go everywhere.»
Ruth Orkin

«Art does not depict what is visible, it makes things visible.»
Paul Klee

«As an artist, you try not to talk too much about the past. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.»
Rebecca Horn

«Between my brain and the canvas there are still the hand, the brush, and the paint – there is a lot going on, and I use it all for my purposes.»
Eva Beresin

«Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?»
Joseph Beuys

«Art is about deconstructing reality and redefining it.»
ORLAN

«Photography allows me to capture the delicate moments and the strength of a community.»
Chloe Sherman

«My art is a connection between the material and the immaterial, a translation of the world into a higher level of consciousness.»
Hilma af Klint

«Art is love clothed in beauty.»
Giovanni Segantini

«… you don't necessarily have to paint pictures to be an artist»
Otti Berger

«What matters in art is no longer art. What matters is our life.»
Wolfgang Max Faust

«One uses paints, but one paints with feeling.»
Jean Siméon Chardin

«I dreamed of leading a different life, one where I could exist in freedom and love.»
Niki de Saint Phalle

«My art is the means through which I understand and interpret the world.»
Lygia Pape

«To be interesting, one has to provoke.»
Salvador Dali

«There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.»
Aristotle

«The truth is, I never felt like painting. It was more like a necessity to express my inner self.»
Frida Kahlo

«A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.»
Kurt Schwitters

«The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!»
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

«You don't make stupid jokes in art.»
Martin Kippenberger

«Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.»
Karl Kraus

«All art forms are good, except the boring ones.»
Voltaire

«I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!» Edgar Degas

«Art may not be the bread, but it is the wine of life.»
Jean Paul

«You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.»
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

«When there are no more priests and philosophers, artists will be the most important people in the world.»
Gerhard Richter

«To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.»
Wolfgang Tillmans

«Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.»
Gustave Courbet

«Photography is a visual language, the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.»
Andreas Feininger