Art Quote by Peggy Guggenheim Download Open image “My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.” — Peggy Guggenheim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Impressionism
About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered. — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts. — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the… — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently. — Ruggero Leoncavallo Copy Share Image
“She seemed to like best my daughter, Pegeen's, paintings, though when I made the observation that the people in Pegeen's paintings, strangely enough, never… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father.… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's? — Peggy Guggenheim 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
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