Artist Quotes · Page 148

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

— Kevin Spacey

My brother drew this for me, from jail.

— Drew

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

— Robert Townsend

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

— Douglas Coupland

A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.

— Gutzon Borglum

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

— John French Sloan

I'm an athlete, but first and foremost I'm a martial artist.

— Dan Hardy

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

— Isamu Noguchi

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

— Pablo Picasso

The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.

— Hilda Doolittle

“Any work of art," said her grandfather,"must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world.”

— Jane Urquhart

It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about…

— Franklin Carmichael

When I was 4 years old I used to draw on the sidewalk with broken brick.

— Bud Luckey

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and…

— Kenneth Clark

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can…

— Marcel Dzama

Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.

— Daria Halprin

Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color…

— Washington Allston

The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the…

— Norman Bethune

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of…

— Thomas Browne

Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee, because we are not going to allow - people will wake up and…

— Marco Rubio

I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in…

— Kenneth Patchen

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work…

— David Hockney

There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a…

— Tracey Emin

“Keith Haring wrote " You see that's why I work like a dog and I worked like a dog all my life.…

— Keith Haring

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

— Iris Murdoch

“Art can help us reclaim a sense of wonder in our lives.”

— Ivan Fernandez

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

— Arnold Schoenberg

It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.

— Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

— Camille Paglia

I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.

— Wangechi Mutu

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

— Margaret Atwood

A painter knows how to paint, but an artist knows when to stop.

— Jae Hill

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

— Alexander McQueen

The goal of art is to inspire people to look inward.

— Chris Sullivan

“The decadent artist markets other people's pain”

— Jennifer Birkett

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

— Remy de Gourmont

I don't ask other artists for too much advice.

— Blake Shelton

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

— Paul Gauguin