Artist Quotes · Page 120

I think good art does come from a dark place.

— Rick Springfield

“Don't expect art and you'll find art in the unexpected.”

— Philip David Hogan

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

— Anais Nin

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

— Douglas Lockwood

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

— Claude Monet

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

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

— Jeremy Begbie

“Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

— Marcel Dzama

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

— Georges Rouault

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

— Anonymous

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

— Ernst Haas

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't…

— Rod Taylor

Whether it's films or painting or music or writing a book, the greatest experience is being able to express yourself and what…

— Rob Reiner

I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds…

— Lawrence Lessig

I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a…

— Natalie Portman

The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in…

— Bertrand Russell

Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol,…

— Jean Pigozzi

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have…

— Pablo Picasso

“Life is not a one and done sort of deal. You've got to work for what you want. Picasso created nearly 100…

— Mel Robbins

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

— Francis Schaeffer

Anything can be art but very little is good art.

— Grayson Perry

Since I am an artist, I know the media can pick you apart.

— Raheem DeVaughn

When I first moved to New York, you know, I was a starving artist.

— Ariana DeBose

“Il n’y a pas d’art pessimiste… L’art affirme.”

— Nietzsche

The moment you stop becoming an artist, you kind of trade it all in.

— John Waite

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

— Karl Friedrich Schinkel

“Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective.”

— Rosemarie Osmun

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

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

— Larry Gagosian

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

— Anton Chekhov

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

— George Bernard Shaw