“When I first saw the work of Matisse I knew that was for me.”
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) American artist
Conversation with W.C. Seitz, in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983
after 1970
As quoted by J. E. Müller, Le Fauvisme, Paris, Hazan, 1956, p. 18
[Marquet's quote refers to the Spring and Summer of 1898 - after the death of their common Paris' art-teacher Gustave Moreau; Marquet was then painting together with Henri Matisse ].
“When I first saw the work of Matisse I knew that was for me.”
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) American artist
Conversation with W.C. Seitz, in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983
after 1970
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) American artist
Source: 1960s, Interview with Henry Geldzahler', in 'Artforum', 1965, p. 36
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) Peintre Néerlandais
Source: Quote of Mondrian about his 1890' years; in 'Mondrian, Essays' ('Plastic art and pure plastic art', 1937 and his other essays, (1941-1943) by Piet Mondrian; Wittenborn-Schultz Inc., New York, 1945, p. 10; as cited in De Stijl 1917-1931 - The Dutch Contribution to Modern Art, by H.L.C. Jaffé http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/jaff001stij01_01/jaff001stij01_01.pdf; J.M. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam 1956, p. 40
“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
Charles Rosen (1927–2012) American pianist and writer on music
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 6 : Chopin: Virtuosity Transformed
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) French painter
I said nothing to him of our experiments. He told me that of all the impressionist painters he liked my work best; this was not the first time he had said this; to each one his own taste. He does completely accept my view that the old disorderly method of execution has become impossible.
Quote of Camille Pissarro, in a letter, Eragny, 23 January 1887, to his son Lucien; in Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, p. 97
1880's
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) French economist and businessman
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book I, On Production, Chapter III, p. 73
Yves Klein (1928–1962) French artist
In 1957; p. 31
before 1960, "Yves Klein, 1928 – 1962, Selected Writings"