" My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. "
Pablo Picasso
" Publishing means creating spaces for the mind. "
Gerd Hatje, founder of Hatje Cantz
" Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent? "
Joseph Beuys
" Art does not depict what is visible, it makes things visible. "
Paul Klee
" I don't work from nature, I work like nature. "
Pablo Picasso
" What happens will only be of value if it comes from the ecstasy of vision. "
Erich Mendelsohn
" The eyes are hungry but often satiated before they see. "
Otl Aicher
" Art is love clothed in beauty. "
Giovanni Segantini
" What matters in art is no longer art. What matters is our life. "
Wolfgang Max Faust
" They despise my modernity, I condemn their modesty. "
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
" One uses paints, but one paints with feeling. "
Jean Siméon Chardin
" To be interesting, one has to provoke. "
Salvador Dali
" Nothing spoils character like life. "
Francis Bacon
" A clever man creates more opportunities than he finds. "
Kurt Schwitters
" There are more copies than originals among people. "
Pablo Picasso
" There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity. "
Aristoteles
" Everything an artist spits is art. "
Kurt Schwitters
" A game played with serious problems. That's what art is. "
Kurt Schwitters
" The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment! "
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
" Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it. "
Karl Kraus
" There is nothing more difficult for an artist than painting a rose, for he must first forget every rose that has every been painted. "
Henri Matisse
" You don’t make stupid jokes in art. "
Martin Kippenberger
" Art washes the dust of everyday life from the soul. "
Pablo Picasso
" People become artists out of despair. "
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
" I’ll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful! "
Edgar Degas
" It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it’s the other way around. "
Giorgio de Chirico
" You're from Stuttgart? That's where Hatje, my publisher, lives. Do you know him? He makes beautiful books. "
Marc Chagall in an interview with Hans Kinkel
" All art is quite useless. "
Oscar Wilde
" Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. "
Edgar Degas
" Of all lies, art is the least untrue. "
Gustave Flaubert
" Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. "
John Ruskin
" A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood pressure. "
Henri Matisse
" Hatje Cantz, the publisher of all art publishers. "
Berner Zeitung June 2007
" It seems that no other German art publisher produces as many excellent catalogues of international significance. "
Kunstzeitung No. 4, 2009
" You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden. "
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
" I'm cold. I long for people, for love and loyalty and truth. "
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
" His life and suffering are his art... "
Eberhard Grisebach 1917
" If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it. "
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1918
" I must draw, until I am at the point of madness... "
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1919
" Art is the window through which man recognizes his superior ability. "
Giovanni Segantini
" When there are no more priests and philosophers, artists will be the most important people in the world. "
Gerhard Richter
" To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos. "
Wolfgang Tillmans
" Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power. "
Gustave Courbet
" Art is only there for those who are interested in it. Those who aren't are out of luck. "
Markus Lüpertz
" It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes. "
Edvard Munch
" Artists are going to be the metronome of this society. "
Yoko Ono
" A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. "
Frank Stella
" There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. "
Salvador Dali
