Famous quotes containing the words pencil and/or artist:
“Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise,
My person degrade & my temper chastise;
And the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;
And my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.”
—David Hockney (b. 1937)