Artist Quotes · Page 117

We draw all the way from the Treasure Coast to the Keys.

— Ryan Ross

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

— Shirley Knight

“Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.”

— Paul Klee

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

— Anita Baker

Realism and art cannot live together.

— Jeanette Lee

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

— David Gerrold

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

— Max Bill

He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

— J. G. Holland

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

— Edward Burtynsky

“To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.”

— David Shields

“I didn't originally intend to be an artist; I was much more interested in decorative arts--daily life, beautiful objects.”

— Helaine Posner

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

— Emma Goldman

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

— Bethany Hamilton

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

— Hildegard of Bingen

“You may not make sense out of the incomprehensible, but you can make art.”

— John Dufress

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

— Malvina Hoffman

“When you are drawing, you are always one or two marks ahead. You're always thinking, 'After what I'm doing here I'll go…

— Martin Gayford

In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe…

— Charles Baudelaire

Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that that creativity is a great thing. It's a human…

— Rainn Wilson

“Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn…

— Rosamund Lupton

They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But…

— David Lynch

When I'm working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite…

— Jamie Hewlett

Scott Coker's a martial artist. He's an honest guy. If you ask him to do something he'll do it, or else he'll…

— Frank Shamrock

If you think about the way we experience art, the paradigm is still Western European. If I go to the National Gallery,…

— Kerry James Marshall

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

— John Dryden

Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.

— Eliel Saarinen

“A canvas needs to be seduced; but Van Gogh, he, he raped it.”

— Zouave Milliet

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

— Henry James

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

— Paul Simon

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

— Camille Henrot

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

— Dylan Thomas

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

— Gary Busey

“I think a lot of art is trying to make someone love you.”

— Keaton Henson

ART DOESNT HAVE TO BE PRETTY IT HAS TO HAVE A MEANING

— DUANE HANSON

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

— Andre Malraux

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

— Edward Hopper

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

— Gore Vidal

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

— William Blake