Anywhere Quote by Lee Krasner

Art needs an operation

— Tristan Tzara

“If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.”

— David Lynch

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

— Aubrey Beardsley

“What does it take to unwind the unwanted? It takes twelve surgeons, in teams of two, rotating in and out as their medical specialty…

— Neal Shusterman

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

— Richard MacDonald

One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people.

— Steve Carell

If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

— Lucian Freud

“He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the…

— John Fowles

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.

— Ernst Lubitsch

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

— Henri Michaux

A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures…

— Victor Burgin