William Baziotes Quotes

#1. Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

William Baziotes

#2. Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.

William Baziotes

#3. It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.

William Baziotes

#4. I don't know how many more movies I'm going to get the opportunity to make and I don't want to look back and go: "Man, I just floated through that one." Or: "I did that one for the money." I want to be able to say that I worked as a hard as I could and I did the best work that I could do.

Tina Fey

#5. I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

William Baziotes

#6. One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

William Baziotes

#7. Hunter and hunted. There are so many ways in which a man can destroy a woman." Her handmaid sighed. "When it comes to matters of the heart, immortals know nothing.

Paula Altenburg

#8. I kept ... returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

William Baziotes

#9. One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

William Baziotes

#10. There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#11. Intellectual criticism will bind Europe together in bonds far closer than those that can be forged by shopman or sentimentalists. It will give us the peace that springs from understanding.

Oscar Wilde

#12. I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

Agnes Repplier

#13. There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists ... the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

William Baziotes

#14. I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.

William Baziotes

#15. Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

William Baziotes

#17. In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.

William Baziotes

#18. When you see the sadness in life, be compassionate. When you see the darkness, become the light and be passionate.

Debasish Mridha

#19. As for the subject matter in my painting ... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

William Baziotes

#20. The eye seems to be responding to something living.

William Baziotes