Wolf Kahn Quotes

#1. The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite is satiated; these are the true measures of a colorist's talent.

Wolf Kahn

#2. Well. Yes. Someone's trying to kill me. But you don't have to make such a big deal out of it.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#3. Like the tender fire of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illumined his memory. He longed to recall to her those moments, to make her forget the years of their dull existence together and remember only their moments of ecstasy.

James Joyce

#4. It is through color changes that we go forward ... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands. The descriptive and anecdotal come second.

Wolf Kahn

#5. Now, more than ever, human communities depend on a diversity of talents; not on a singular conception of ability.

Ken Robinson

#6. There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.

Wolf Kahn

#7. Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.

Pierre Curie

#8. People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material.

Wolf Kahn

#9. Yes, I still think of him as that, call him that. It's as real as any of his other names.

Mal Peet

#10. To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

Wolf Kahn

#11. And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.

Elizabeth Olsen

#12. I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a whole. When that happens, I feel I've accomplished something useful.

Wolf Kahn

#13. Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.

Wolf Kahn

#14. Spend some personal time with Jesus and he will reveal himself to you on a deeper level.

Sandra M. Michelle

#15. I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

Wolf Kahn

#16. No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

Simon Cowell

#17. Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

Wolf Kahn

#18. Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas.

Wolf Kahn

#19. Certain things have to happen before other things. Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board, and look all over the place for the dice.

Terry Pratchett