Art Quote by Carl Andre Download Open image “Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?” — Carl Andre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Lost Wonderful
Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place. — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide back. If… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music. — David Ruffin Copy Share Image
I want so many artists that I care about to go away and grow up, and have been amazed at how hard that is… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend… — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
