Artist Quotes · Page 159

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

— Ralph Bakshi

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

— Sol LeWitt

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

— Oscar Wilde

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

— M. F. Husain

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

— Kary Mullis

“It is the purpose of art to heighten the mystery”

— David William Richards

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

— Adriana Trigiani

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

— Salvador de Madariaga

If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?

— Cornelia Parker

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing…

— Peter Brook

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.

— Toni Onley

“Creating art is a lonely task, which is why we introverts revel in it, but when we have fans”

— Francesca Zappia

I never saw a painting that would not be improved by the addition of tropical fish.

— John Cooper Clarke

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

— Al Pacino

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

— Gustav Klimt

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

— Criss Jami

Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is…

— Joe Fafard

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression…

— Piet Mondrian

We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you…

— James Dickey

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept…

— Galen Rowell

The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the…

— John Walford

It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done…

— Eric Maisel

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is…

— Paul Klee

“At its best, art can be nothing more than a means of forgetting the human disaster for a while.’ I am still…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'm a West Coast ratchet L.A. artist.

— Blueface

“It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.”

— James Joyce

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

— Edgar Degas

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

— T Bone Burnett

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

— Elliot W. Eisner

My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.

— Eva Hesse

I would like to be an artist who works in a very closed ambience.

— Santiago Calatrava

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

— Angie Stone

“I paint as a means to make life bearable.”

— Van Goh

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself

— Robert Mapplethorpe

“ART (in a business marketing context) Authority Relevant Timely”

— Richie Norton

I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.

— F. Murray Abraham

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

— Pharrell Williams

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

— Gerhard Richter

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

— Robert Hughes

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

— Edouard Manet