Art Quote by Philip Guston Download Open image “If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?” — Philip Guston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Block Enormous Ifs Inspirational
An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist... Anyone who says that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective. — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others. — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within. — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The artist can know all the technique in the world, but if he feels nothing, it will mean nothing. — Chen Chi Copy Share Image
That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom.… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the… — Philip Guston 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
