Artist Quotes · Page 100

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

— Toni Cade Bambara

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

— Nikki Giovanni

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

— Karl Kraus

Merce is my favorite artist in any field,

— Jasper Johns

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

— Robert Fripp

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

— Thornton Wilder

The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

— Lewis Hyde

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

— Amy Sherald

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

— Felix Feneon

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and…

— Douglas Coupland

The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.

— Matthew Quick

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

— e. e. cummings

“Painting has to do with knocking yourself out day after day trying to get what you want to down on canvas. Maybe…

— Zibby Oneal

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization…

— Yoko Ono

Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make…

— Andre Malraux

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something,…

— Marcel Duchamp

One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the…

— Jerry Uelsmann

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I…

— James Thurber

As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent…

— Laurence Boldt

When I first got into graffiti I thought it was going to change the world. But when, 20-years-later, it still hadn't, I…

— Ben Eine

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

— Irving Stone

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

— Antoni Tapies

Stories of life remain the same, just change the face of artists

— Mak_786

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

— Vinny Guadagnino

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

— Anonymous

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

— Mark Rothko

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

— Robert Henri

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

— Anton Chekhov

The more people who look at great art, the better for our culture.

— Larry Gagosian

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

— George Bernard Shaw

Drawing, Drawing, Drawing...a blur of Crayons and giggles...

— Eric Nickel

No artist wants to be perceived as a regurgitator.

— Saul Bass

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

— Rembrandt

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

— Francis Schaeffer