Art Quote by Paula Rego Download Open image “That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.” — Paula Rego ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Looks Modern Modern art Modernism Timidity
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years. — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath. — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
“If you put frightening things into a picture then they can't harm you. If fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.” — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery. — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps. — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right there. You first of all draw it on the paper,… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right... — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to… — Paula Rego 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