Artist Quotes · Page 156

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

— Zac Efron

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

— Paul Haggis

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

— Bob Ross

“Mother nature is the greatest painter.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.”

— Stacey T. Hunt

“A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind.”

— Eugene Ionesco

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

— Wendelin Van Draanen

I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.

— Chris Mars

Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

— Oscar Wilde

“Who art thou? Are you art, or a guy named Art? Doesn’t matter. What does matter is, Are you for sale?”

— Jarod Kintz

I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.

— Anthony Browne

Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again.

— Hermann Bahr

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better…

— Anne Roiphe

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over…

— Boz Scaggs

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is…

— Christopher Walken

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness…

— Fernando Botero

Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists…

— Fritjof Capra

There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of…

— Mark Matousek

If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is…

— Lawren Harris

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting…

— Anonymous

“A conviction, unformulated but strong, rose to the working level of her mind - that painting did something more important for Nicholas…

— Ann Bridge

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first…

— Sigmar Polke

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”

— Amit Kalantri

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

— Oscar Wilde

ART SHOULD COMFORT THE DISTURBED & DISTURB THE COMFORTABLE

— SAMIR SHAH

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

— Seth Godin

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

— Jean Cocteau

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

— M. F. Husain

I've focused very intensely on finding who I am as an artist.

— Sky Blu

In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.

— Kiki Smith

You can paint your soul with any medium.

— Jeet Aulakh

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

— Spider Robinson

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

— Ouida

Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

— Steven Herrick

Make life an art rather than art from life.

— David Gilmour

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

— Gerhard Richter

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

— Joseph Campbell

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

— Barnett Newman