Italian Artist Quotes

#1. One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Frank Gehry

#2. ...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.

Miles J. Unger

#3. Love burns past logic and all rational time lines to consume everything.

Kitty Thomas

#4. Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?

Jerry Saltz

#5. I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

Marina Abramovic

#6. We are stronger in our broken places.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled - he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

Henry Ford

#8. Fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom.

Nicole Richie