Arshile Quotes

#1. She was famous, and she was insane.
Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellbound and enraptured, delivering their hopes and fears tangled in chords and rhythm. They called her an angel, her voice a gift.
She was famous, and she was a liar.

Dianne Sylvan

#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. I just tried one where my client claimed he was urinating in a back alley. Turns out he was jerking off on a street corner. The prosecution had twenty-one witnesses. They were nuns." She looked pained.

"I understand," I said gently, patting her on the back.

N.M. Silber

#5. The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

Dennis Prager

#6. To deny equality to one is to deny equality for all.
We won't find joy by misplacing our unhappiness onto others.
Love cannot be defined, assigned or mitigated.It's not something to be controlled or dictated.
Love is uncontrollable and limitless.

Tosha Michelle

#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.

Arshile Gorky

#8. Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints.

Henry James

#9. There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

Anna Godbersen

#10. 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.

Arshile Gorky

#11. We clean our plates, yet we're still famished - starving for something other than food.

Kate Wicker

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

Arshile Gorky

#13. 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.

Arshile Gorky

#14. 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

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

Arshile Gorky

#16. 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

#17. Sid Hite makes the greatest books

Sid Hite

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

Arshile Gorky

#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.

Arshile Gorky

#20. People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual.

Pierre Boulez

#21. Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Sidney Hook

#22. 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

#23. If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.

Jay Parini

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

Arshile Gorky

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

Arshile Gorky

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

Arshile Gorky

#27. 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

#28. By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I'm wearing a bright red dress. And there's a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.

Veronica Roth

#29. My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.

Ron Moody

#30. 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