Art Quote by Richard Diebenkorn Download Open image “My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.” — Richard Diebenkorn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Artist Respectable Being Father Father Didn Goal Goal Man Goals Man Parenting Respectable Think Think Artist Worthy
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist. — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist, he considers… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career. — Jose Jose Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the complete and… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it. — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can get in… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would… — Richard Diebenkorn 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
![“I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist, he considers himself an artist, and so he takes on the responsibility of speaking for those who are not given the means or the opportunity.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/872/catherine-camus-12238_art_i-couldn-t-ever-act-or-think-on-behalf-o_48718.jpg)
