Artist Quote by Chris Van Allsburg Download Open image “They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.” — Chris Van Allsburg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Corporations Corporations Hire Hire Hire People Large Make Make Sculptures People People Make Sculptures Send
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. — Antonio Gaudi Copy Share Image
An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people. — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
That is how America gets her art: Contracting firms get the contract and the honor. Starving artists do the work. The government pays for… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done. — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated? — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement." from Mr.… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp 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
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
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead 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… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“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
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
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image