Art Quote by Elaine de Kooning Download Open image “Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.” — Elaine de Kooning ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Cockroaches Mills
Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For… — Elaine de Kooning 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
Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating,… — Andrea Suarez Paz Copy Share Image
All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest. — Andrew Jack Copy Share Image
Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are artists who… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
Most artists I know have gone through some period that forces them to get to the very core of who they are. — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it. — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking,… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe… — Elaine de Kooning 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… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“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… — 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
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
