Artist Quotes · Page 108

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

— Georges Braque

I paint life as I would like it to be,

— Norman Rockwell

All good art is abstract in its structure.

— Paul Strand

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

— John Ruskin

“W.H. Auden: “Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.”

— Anonymous

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

— Soren Kierkegaard

People will definitely know that my art has something to say.

— KiKi Layne

“...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci”

— Norman Maclean

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

— Amy Harmon

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.

— Sloane Crosley

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

— Gilbert Stuart

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

— Lucinda Childs

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

— Banksy

I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything…

— Madonna Ciccone

“Here, I could see, was choice matter on which the expert and art critic could exercise their knowledge and judgment. As I…

— Arthur Machen

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany…

— Joseph Campbell

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that…

— Oscar Wilde

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers,…

— Pablo Picasso

During 'Idol,' I wasn't expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big…

— Jessica Sanchez

I take music really seriously. I haven't been doing this for too long, but I've been loving music for a long time.…

— Trinidad James

My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and…

— Joyelle McSweeney

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

— Clive Bell

Art penetrates, no matter how many bans you put out.

— Mawra Hocane

I've been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school.

— Martin Mull

I think it is your job as an artist to be able to hear a song.

— Keifer Thompson

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.

— Theophilus London

“I can create my imagination because i am an Artist.!”

— Manish Suthar

It is ultimately character that underwrites art.

— Anne Truitt

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

— Andres Serrano

Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

— Mirka Mora

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

— Doug Stanhope

“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]”

— Michel de Montaigne

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

— Paul Cezanne

I'm just a manga artist, so I can't stand being scrutinized.

— Akira Toriyama

“You have to be an artist and a madman...”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

— Waldo Salt

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

— Rene Magritte