Dorothea Tanning quotes
Art quotes search by Author:

Join thousands of others and get the twice-weekly art letter.
Subscription is free.

Absolutely free, no strings. Sign up to the twice-weekly letter and join our art community.

art quotes

Dorothea Tanning Quotes



Quotes by Dorothea Tanning - (8 quotes)

Dorothea Tanning - From the Advice category:

Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars. (Dorothea Tanning)

Dorothea Tanning - From the Amusement category:

Living is so amusing. (Dorothea Tanning)

Dorothea Tanning - From the Artists category:

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now. (Dorothea Tanning)

Dorothea Tanning - From the Exploration category:

- in conversation with Carlo McCormick...
Any true artist is going to explore the medium as long as he can draw breath. It would be grotesque to paint the same way, over and over all your life. It's a kind of freeze. (Dorothea Tanning)

Dorothea Tanning - From the Gender category:

- in conversation with Carlo McCormick...
You may be a woman and you may be an artist; but the one is a given and the other is you. (Dorothea Tanning)

Dorothea Tanning - From the Interest category:

Anything that is ordinary and frequent is uninteresting to me, so I have to go in a solitary and risky direction. (Dorothea Tanning)

Dorothea Tanning - From the Solitude category:

I was a loner, am a loner, good Lord, it's the only way I can imagine working. (Dorothea Tanning)

Dorothea Tanning - From the Surrealism category:

- in conversation with Carlo McCormick...
People talk about Surrealism as an art movement, like Abstract Expressionism or Impressionism. Surrealism is a philosophical movement. (Dorothea Tanning)