Art Quote by Jan Greenberg Download Open image ““When Louise worried bout something, it often turned up in her art.”” — Jan Greenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art
“She was white, wore perfume and smiled openly with the Negro customers, so I knew she was sophisticated. Other people's sophistication tended to make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“it took me a long time to realize that she, too, was cautious and bourgeois, frightened of the unknown and so uncertain of herself… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.” — Manreet Sodhi Someshwar Copy Share Image
“Louise was an urbanite, she preferred the gut-thrilling sound of an emergency siren slicing through the night to the noise of country birds at… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.” — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“The woman had an interesting set of features on her. Like she wasn’t quite sure what beautiful was supposed to look like. Her” — Noah Barnett Copy Share Image
“I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“There was something strange and extraordinary about her – something that was frightening and at the same time most exciting.” — P.L. Travers Copy Share Image
“As the years drew on it was the fear of nothingness in her life that affected her.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Well, she wasn’t strong enough to avoid being the background of my art. Just the background. Her words just my canvas.” — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“(How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois” — Jan Greenberg Copy Share
“Instead of tall and angular shapes regarded as masculine and aggressive, she now turned to soft, rounded forms identified as female or nurturing.” — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Asked if she was a feminist, Louise said she wasn't sure, but she was a woman--her art couldn't help reflecting that.” — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
“She doesn't attend gallery openings or apear at art-world parties. "People need to see the work. It's more me than my physical presence.” — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
“She wanted children and considered having them a "privilege," but art also "was a privilege given to me and I had to pursue it.” — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Her intimate, edgy sculpture was grounded in female experience, including relationships, giving birth and motherhood.” — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
“My inspiration comes from the beauty of the past. That's where I am completely omnipotent. -Louise Bourgeois” — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
“It was just that i had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some way invading… — Jan Greenberg 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
