Days Quote by Walter Gropius

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

— Walter Gropius

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no…

— Walter Gropius

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus…

— Martin Filler

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an…

— Guity Novin

The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at.…

— Lucian Freud

“What genuine painters do is to reveal the underlying psychological and spiritual conditions of their relationship to their world; thus in the works of…

— Rollo May

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and not so…

— Edward Ruscha

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

— Andre Malraux

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead…

— Norman Rockwell

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer…

— Sam Francis