Pricasso (1949) Australian painter
[Daily News staff, Daily News, South Africa, Sexpo's popularity profitable for entrepreneurial granny, 6 February 2009, 5, Independent Online]
About
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
Pricasso (1949) Australian painter
[Daily News staff, Daily News, South Africa, Sexpo's popularity profitable for entrepreneurial granny, 6 February 2009, 5, Independent Online]
About
“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
H. Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British physician, writer, and social reformer
The New Spirit
“The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.”
Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978) American writer and art critic
Source: Art & Other Serious Matters, (1985), p. 191, "Saul Steinberg"
“The artist creates his own elite, and the elite its own artists.”
Source: Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
“Every human being is the natural guardian of his own importance.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 9: "Science and Philosophy"
“Words paint to the imagination but every man forms the thing to himself in his own way.”
Jonathan Richardson (1667–1745) English painter
Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)
Pricasso (1949) Australian painter
[Cape Argus staff, Artist uses a different stroke on Zille portrait, Cape Argus, South Africa, 7 May 2008, 3, Independent Online]
About
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) Swedish painter
Quote from his writings Thoughts on Art, Caspar David Friedrich; as cited in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 32
undated