Artist Quotes · Page 165

In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

— Mason Cooley

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

— Carolee Schneemann

We learned how to look at art from religion.

— Grayson Perry

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

— Balthus

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

— Willem de Kooning

I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts.

— Bern Will Brown

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

— Washington Allston

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

— Harry S Truman

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

— Friedrich Schiller

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— Jasmine

“The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all”

— Oscar Wilde

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

— Paul Klee

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

— Maurizio Cattelan

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

— Allan Kaprow

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means…

— Piet Mondrian

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to…

— Andy Warhol

It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds,…

— Edward Betts

“In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to…

— Diego Rivera

“Art that is based on scenes from the Bible is not better than art that is based on scenes from, say, Shakespeare…

— John H. Walton

Actually, I think that a lot of the interviews and acoustic sessions and other things that artists fill their time with are…

— Marina and the Diamonds

I have a streak in myself, like, I'm an exhibi- tionist. There's a side of me that really wants to show off…

— Josh Smith

As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope…

— Alice McDermott

When I speak about freedom, it's about freedom of the spirit. Freedom of the spirit can't be represented by a body. It…

— Salma Hayek

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the…

— Juan Goytisolo

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

— Susan Sontag

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

— Thomas Aquinas

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

— Noel Coward

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

— Roger Ebert

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

— Kate Chopin

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

— Henry David Thoreau

Creative artists have great passion.

— Jack Welch

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

— Michel Foucault

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

“I can't drop it. It's how I'm drawn.”

— I.B. Nosey

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

— John Singer Sargent

I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

— Suzy Bogguss

I never had this idea, 'I wanna be a solo artist.'

— Alissa White-Gluz

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

— Juvenal

“The great artists and poets may have gone, but football is here.”

— Phil Ball