Arshile Gorky Quotes

#1. The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.

Sarah Kay

#2. I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

Arshile Gorky

#3. I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

Arshile Gorky

#4. A department store two days before Christmas Eve is like a city in a state of siege ...

Rachel Cohn

#5. Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now ... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that ...

Roger McGuinn

#6. There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

Heber J. Grant

#7. You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.

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#8. When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

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#9. Art must always remain earnest ... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

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#10. They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
[Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.]

Juvenal

#11. Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.

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#12. Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes ... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.

Arshile Gorky

#13. there is no guarantee that an anonymity-free Internet would be a kinder, gentler Internet.

Whitney Phillips

#14. Alone and rejected, Mummy Boy wept,
then went to the cabinet
where the snack food was kept.

Tim Burton

#15. Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Arshile Gorky

#16. If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Rick Nielsen

#17. I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

Arshile Gorky

#18. I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force.

Desi Arnaz

#19. The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview.

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#20. We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

Arshile Gorky

#21. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.

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#22. If Picasso drips, I drip ... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.

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#23. The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

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#24. Now she felt as if she were dully humming with an unpleasant, low-grade drunkenness.

Meg Wolitzer

#25. The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have.

Arshile Gorky

#26. People like you are the reason People like me need medication.

Cheyenne McCray

#27. There are a lot of things to get seduced by in America.

Lena Olin

#28. If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.

Arshile Gorky

#29. My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.

Arshile Gorky