Artist Quotes · Page 139

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

— Barnett Newman

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

— Stephen Gardiner

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

— Michelangelo

I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don't wanna be within a genre.

— Yungblud

There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.

— Christoph Waltz

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.

— Steve Martin

Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

— Georges Braque

“For art to truly affect us, it needs to be, in a sense, “given.”

— Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

— Marco Pirroni

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

— Stephen Graham Jones

“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.”

— Sebastian Saviano

“Chloe takes a mental snapshot, as if one day she will paint him. It will be a day's work getting to know…

— Tor Udall

It's a gift that we get to do the work that we do to call ourselves artists.

— Rodney Crowell

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

— Emily Carr

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on…

— William Morris Hunt

If my legs are showing, the makeup artist adds a tiny amount of foundation to body lotion and rubs it in.

— Christina Hendricks

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No…

— John Ruskin

When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the…

— Kazimir Malevich

My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight…

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the…

— Georg Baselitz

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be…

— Tom Sturridge

One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the…

— Jerry Uelsmann

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something,…

— Marcel Duchamp

Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different…

— Michael Kimmelman

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

— Nellie McKay

To understand an artist is to be a genius.

— Andrew Lakey

It can beat an artist down when people say bad things about you.

— Kane Brown

Don't re create the disaster, paint a new art.

— Myself (MissSarcasm

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

— Wallace Stevens

I don't aim to make art in a vacuum - you want people to like it.

— Will Arnett

You can create art that makes people feel better.

— John Seagall

I've never done an anguished painting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

— Win Butler

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

— Euripides

The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.

— Ed Benguiat

The greatest thing in the world as an actor or an artist to connect.

— Charlie Plummer

“The anthology was not a best-seller; art as a weapon seldom is.”

— Lyle W. Dorsett

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

— Winston Churchill

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

— Jim Henson

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

— Leonard Cohen