Artist Quotes · Page 113

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I don’t know about art but I know what I like.

— Lux Interior

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

— Andrew Wyeth

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

— Joni Mitchell

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

— Michael Keaton

Art transcends politics this weekend.

— Barbra Streisand

“As an artist, motive means opportunity”

— Siren Waroe

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

— Robert Ryman

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have…

— Balthus

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

— James Thomson

I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.

— Donald Barthelme

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

— Conway Twitty

Every artist who drew Batman after creator Bob Kane was a better artist than Kane [...].

— Mike W. Barr

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

— Maya Lin

Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of…

— Robert Ripley

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a…

— Edward Burns

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with…

— Edward Betts

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. But…

— Omari Hardwick

Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to…

— Jerry Saltz

[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more…

— Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germany… Most of our male colleagues…

— Hannah Hoch

“I had learned from my own father that it was almost blasphemy to regard the function of art as merely to reproduce…

— Thomas Merton

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast;…

— Voltaire

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and…

— Peter Schjeldahl

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

— Andy Warhol

The true artist can only labor con amore.

— Victor Hugo

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

— Bill Viola

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

— Asger Jorn

In art one idea is as good as another.

— Willem de Kooning

I do think it's important to expose kids to artists.

— Jerry Pinkney

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

— Bill Griffith

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

— Arne Jacobsen

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

— Chuck Close

Work always gives me an opportunity to grow as an artist and a person.

— Valentina

“The best of all lost arts is honesty”

— Twain, Mark

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

— Liam Cunningham

“To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.”

— Patti Smith

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

— Rembrandt

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

— Thomas Jefferson

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

— Lionel Trilling