Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain? — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I was in Madrid as a young girl and a teenager. I'll never forget when I went to the Prado Museum for… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Of course, the camera is a far more objective and trustworthy witness than a human being. We know that a Brueghel or… — Hannah Hoch Copy Share Image
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Goya’s savage verve, his harsh, brutal genius, captivated Des Esseintes. On the other hand, the universal admiration his works had won rather… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
When I looked at people like Goya and Pina Bausch, the message I got was just do what you're passionate about. Don't… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
“His [Francisco Goya's] debt to the Christianity of the eighteenth century is contained in the idea that politics was just adopting from… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I always did drawings. Then, few years ago, I started working with large-scale paper. It's an extension of performance, because the pieces… — Rebecca Horn Copy Share Image
It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
“Götz Bergander, son of Dresden, eyewitness to its suffering, and the first objective historian of its destruction, summed up succinctly but tellingly:… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share Image
“The reason for which Picasso was compelled to resort to signs and allegories should now be clear enough: his utter political helplessness… — Max Raphael Copy Share Image
“A Belgian journalist, struggling to describe the scene, had said that it resembled a cross between a permanent mass wake, an ongoing… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The studio was immense and gloomy, the sole light within it proceeding from a stove, around which the three were seated. Although… — James Hain Friswell Copy Share Image