Letters of Friendship and Acquaintance [Briefe der Freundschaft und Begegnungen] (1966), edited by Hans Kollwitz, p. 95; cited in Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist (1976) by Martha Kearns, p. 172.
Other Quotes
— Willem de Kooning Dutch painter 1904 - 1997
Original: Original in Dutch: Kunst lijkt me nooit volledig of zuiver te maken. Het is of ik altijd verwikkeld ben in het melodrama van de alledaagsheid. [...]
Quelle: Quote of De Kooning from Beyond the Aesthetic, Robert Motherwell, Design 47, April 1946, as quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 101.
— Max Pechstein German artist 1881 - 1955
as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism, de:Wolf-Dieter Dube; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 89
— Kitty Winn American actress 1943
Quelle: Winn Traded Film for Family https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/WHERE-ARE-THEY-NOW-Winn-Traded-Film-for-Family-2917292.php (August 1, 1999)
— Mary Cassatt American painter and printmaker 1844 - 1926
Quote of Cassatt, after her trip to Egypt, 1910; as cited by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998, p. 291 - ISBN 978-0-585-36794-1
— Piet Mondrian Peintre Néerlandais 1872 - 1944
Mondrian tried to convince the Dutch publisher Stols to publish his new manuscript 'L'art et la vie'
In a letter to A. M. Stols, 26 March 1932; as quoted in Mondrian, - The Art of Destruction, Carel Blotkamp, Reaktion Books LTD. London 2001, p. 222
1930's
„I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say.“
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
— Tracey Emin English artist, one of the group known as Britartists or Young British Artists 1963
"Artist Emin leaves us baffled" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1693678.stm BBC, (2001-12-06)
Emin was given the Plain English Campaign's "Foot in Mouth" award for this remark, made in a newspaper interview.
— Jacques Lipchitz American and French sculptor 1891 - 1973
Quelle: Jacques Lipchitz: The Artist at Work, 1966, p. 202
„What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.“
— Marcel Proust, buch In Search of Lost Time
Ce qu'on appelle la postérité, c'est la postérité de l'œuvre.
Quelle: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919), Ch. I: "Madame Swann at Home"
— Günter Brus Austrian artist 1938
Quelle: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 208 (1993)
— Stanton Macdonald-Wright American artist 1890 - 1973
Quoted in Bryant American Pictures And Their Painters (1917), p. 302
— Paul Klee German Swiss painter 1879 - 1940
Quote in a letter to his wife, 12 June, 1906; as cited in Paul Klee. Das Frühwerk 1883-1922, p. 50.
1903 - 1910
— Mary Cassatt American painter and printmaker 1844 - 1926
Quote, c. 1875; as cited by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998, p. 114 - ISBN 978-0-585-36794-1
Cassatt admired Edgar Degas, whose pastels had made a powerful impression on her when she encountered them in an art dealer's window in Paris, 1875
— Karl Popper Austrian-British philosopher of science 1902 - 1994
As quoted in "At 90, and Still Dynamic : Revisiting Sir Karl Popper and Attending His Birthday Party" by Eugene Yue-Ching Ho, in Intellectus 23 (Jul-Sep 1992) http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~tkpw/hk-ies/n23a/
„Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.“
— Claude Debussy French composer 1862 - 1918
As quoted in Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought (1992) by John Paynter, p. 590
Unsourced variant: Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
— Ellsworth Kelly American painter, sculptor, and printmaker 1923 - 2015
Quelle: 1969 - 1980, In: "Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper," 1987, p. unknown : 'Notes from 1969'
