Artist Quotes · Page 102

For an artist, there's nothing better than working with an orchestra.

— Rene Angelil

I think good art does come from a dark place.

— Rick Springfield

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

— Henry Fuseli

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman

— Claire Bloom

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

— Henry Moore

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

— David Hockney

I think I am beginning to learn something about painting.

— Titian

“Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.”

— Bauvard

I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.

— Patrick Seguin

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what…

— Gertrude Stein

“Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers...”

— Kelly Bingham

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.

— Jack Vance

When you're an independent artist, you need as much play or promotion as you can get.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

— Theophile Gautier

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of…

— Muriel Spark

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

— Eric Gill

A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the…

— Anonymous

Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art…

— Nina Garcia

It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all…

— John Berger

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation,…

— Harold Rosenberg

It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination,…

— Richard P. Feynman

In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of…

— Barbara Hepworth

“My hope for you is not only to learn skills through this collection of projects, but also that it brings you a…

— Chantal Larocque

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

— Tom Rachman

I think people are intolerant of artists.

— David Chase

Bad artists always admire each others work.

— Oscar Wilde

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

— Brian Eno

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

— Fred Williams

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

— Christian Morgenstern

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I was welding art from my house, making abstract figures out of metal.

— Ed Dwight

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

— Paul Gauguin

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

— Douglas Davis

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

— Anonymous

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

— Niklas Luhmann

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

— Laurence Gartel

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

— Herbert Read