Harry Callahan Quotes
I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
Quotes to Explore
-
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
-
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
-
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
-
I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
-
The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
-
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
-
Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
-
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
-
As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
-
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
-
There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
-
I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
-
I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
-
We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
-
As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
-
I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
-
No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
-
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
-
To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
-
Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.
-
You can’t judge a banana by the outside. The outside of the banana might be all bruised and discolored and look really nasty, but once you open the banana and peel the skin back, there could be a nice, clean, fresh banana inside. I also explained that there are all different kinds of bananas, just as there are all different kinds of people, and that we shouldn’t judge either the people or the bananas in our lives until we have the chance to “peel back the skin” and learn what’s inside.
-
For what I give, not what I take,
-
I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.
-
I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
