Quotes
"Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.”
Alberto Giacometti
"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated."
Auguste Rodin
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web."
Pablo Picasso
"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
Ansel Adams
"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
Paul Gauguin
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
Le Corbusier
"All architecture is shelter. All great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
Phillip Johnson
"Form ever follows function."
Louis Sullivan
"Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two."
Tadao Ando
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
Frank Gehry
"Architecture begins where engineering ends."
Walter Gropius
"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
Daniel Libeskind
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."
Vincent Van Gogh
"What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is in harmony parallel with nature."
Paul Cezanne
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art."
Leonardo da Vinci
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Uh, gee, great."
Andy Warhol
"The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."
Jackson Pollock
"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist."
Edward Hopper