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A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.' (Robert Brault)
-Naked Lunch introduction (1959)
The title means exactly what the words say: NAKED Lunch - a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork. (William S. Burroughs)
Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous. (Gustave Courbet)
I usually jot words down while a painting is in the works. It often invites and causes a title to surface. Then the work is ready to go out there and speak. (Grace Cowling)
In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm (title of a later artwork). (Marcel Duchamp)
Factual [titling] satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement. (Robert Genn)
An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action. (Robert Genn)
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work. (Robert Genn)
I do have trouble with titles. (Jim Harrison)
Words excite me enormously. Some of mine are metaphor, allusion and illusion, allegory, personification, inversion, and paradox. I find that sometimes - if I'm lucky - I can go on a roll with titles of as yet invisible paintings that bring the image clearly into my mind's eye. (Margot Hattingh)
I work hard every afternoon from 4:30 to 4:40, that being the limit of the light I represent, the title of my picture being Early Evening. (Winslow Homer)
I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive. (Joan Miro)
A title is justified only when it is vague and even aims confusedly at the elliptical. My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They determine nothing. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. They are a kind of metaphor... (Odilon Redon)
Of all my verse, like not a single line; / But like my title, for it is not mine. / That title from a better man I stole; / Ah, how much better, had I stol'n the whole! (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Sometimes the title could make or break an art piece. Art is utterance and titles are like punch lines. (Asterio Tecson)
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. (Virginia Woolf)
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