Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism, while Picasso never explained anything. It took a few years to see that not talking was better than talking too much.

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner, the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.

I had been thinking about rubber all along. Like as the novel's element, or base material. A lot of artists in the late '60s and early '70s worked with rubber and other forms that seemed like they connoted industrial detritus. Robert Morris, Eva Hesse.