Quotes by 50 renowned artists celebrating and expressing the importance of printmaking in their artwork.
Prints are like a diary of my artistic journey.
Pablo Picasso
Printmaking is drawing, just with different tools.
Henri Matisse
Prints are the most democratic form of art.
Andy Warhol
The magic happens in the process, not just the final image.
Helen Frankenthaler
An etching is a conversation between artist and plate.
Rembrandt van Rijn
Printmaking allows me to play with reproduction as concept.
Roy Lichtenstein
A line is a line, whether drawn or printed.
Albrecht Dürer
Printmaking is drawing multiplied.
David Hockney
Each print is a new emotional landscape.
Louise Bourgeois
Prints are thoughts made visible.
Jasper Johns
Printmaking is poetry without words.
Joan Miró
Printmaking is drawing multiplied.
Willem de Kooning
Every print is a moment captured forever.
Katsushika Hokusai
Printmaking is architecture for the hand.
Eduardo Chillida
Precision is the poetry of printmaking.
Chuck Close
Prints are mathematical music.
Bridget Riley
Printmaking is controlled accident.
Robert Rauschenberg
My prints are my wounds made beautiful.
Frida Kahlo
A print is a dream you can touch.
Marc Chagall
Printmaking is infinite repetition.
Yayoi Kusama
Geometry becomes poetry in printmaking.
Frank Stella
Prints are silent storytellers.
Kara Walker
Printmaking is where technology meets art.
Richard Hamilton
Prints are weapons of mass communication.
Barbara Kruger
Street art is just printmaking without a press.
Keith Haring
Language becomes visual in printmaking.
Mel Bochner
Prints are capitalism’s most beautiful product.
Richard Prince
Printmaking is resistance made visible.
Elizabeth Catlett
A print can seduce an entire city.
Toulouse-Lautrec
Prints are encrypted messages.
Jenny Holzer
Printmaking turns the world upside down.
Georg Baselitz
Prints are meditation in two dimensions.
Agnes Martin
Printmaking is drawing’s mathematical cousin.
Robert Motherwell
Prints are intimate confessions.
Tracey Emin
Memory lives in prints.
Peter Doig
Prints are poetry of the everyday.
Ed Ruscha
Prints democratize rebellion.
Banksy
Printmaking transforms the ordinary.
Claes Oldenburg
Prints are explosive drawings.
Elizabeth Murray
Prints are pop culture’s DNA.
Takashi Murakami
Prints are dreams rendered.
David Lynch
Printmaking is controlled chaos.
Niki de Saint Phalle
Prints are memory’s blur.
Gerhard Richter
Prints are performance frozen.
Marina Abramović
Prints are dreams rendered.
David Lynch
Printmaking is controlled chaos.
Niki de Saint Phalle
Prints are memory’s blur.
Gerhard Richter
Prints are performance frozen.
Marina Abramović
Prints are commodity as art.
Jeff Koons
Prints are identity’s disguise.
Cindy Sherman
Prints are reality’s illusion.
René Magritte
Prints are history’s whisper.
Kerry James Marshall
Prints are mortality’s playground.
Damien Hirst
Prints are shadows made permanent.
William Kentridge
