“Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
“Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) Italian painter
in an interview, Sept. 1939; as quoted in Morandi 1894 – 1964, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2008; p. 44
1925 - 1945
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Said to avant-garde artists Ely Bielutin and Ernst Neizvestny during a visit to their exhibition (1 December 1962)
“Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.”
Robert Henri (1865–1929) American painter
Source: Henri, Robert (2007) [1923], p. 285.
Jonathan Larson (1960–1996) American composer and playwright
Source: Rent (1996)
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
David Hockney (1937) British artist
From a series of interviews with Marco Livingstone (April 22 - May 7, 1980 and July 6 - 7, 1980) quoted in Livingstone's David Hockney (1981), p. 207
1980s
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“no one dies happy, you can only die well”
Stephen King book Different Seasons
Source: Different Seasons