Artist Quote by Laura Owens Download Open image “I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.” — Laura Owens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Feel Shame Feels Grandiose Grandiose Ridiculous Having Paintings Painting Paintings Paintings Grandiose Ridiculous Shame
I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.' — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's not looking… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing. — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing. — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a more democratic,… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio. I'm not… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
I feel like there’s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I’m completely in… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
I’m not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the person’s face from… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
I think that I'm going to be including a lot of anonymous female artists in what I look at and incorporate. Most textiles are… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think… — Laura Owens 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
