Artist Quotes · Page 169

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

— Victor Hugo

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

— Jacques d'Amboise

“Art thrives in times of uncertainty.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

— Max Beerbohm

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

— Socrates

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

— Claude Debussy

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

— W. H. Auden

If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us -…

— P. K. Page

I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a…

— John Caudwell

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

— Danny Glover

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

— Ben Whishaw

The left paw has done me well over the years. I'm not a scientist, I'm a martial artist.

— Conor McGregor

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

— Robert Graham

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a…

— Peter M. Brant

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

— Jerry Saltz

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You…

— Amy Tan

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work…

— Gian Lorenzo Bernini

I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent -…

— Moby

Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something…

— Paul Thek

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and…

— Ben Shahn

I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children's art or children's…

— Neil Farber

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure…

— Henri Poincare

It's not that I can't find art beautiful. I just don't know what to do, standing there in the gallery. I don't…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.

— William Herschel

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

— Julien Torma

I love mishmash and the chaos of art forms.

— John Tiffany

“In the arts," James wrote, "feeling is always meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

It's a work of art I ain't talkin mona lisa.

— Mac Miller

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

— Willem de Kooning

I think of me being a painter eventually.

— Syd Barrett

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

— Andrew Wyeth

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

— Friedrich Schiller

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

— Tony Curtis

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

— Simon Raven

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

— Joyce Cary

I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.

— Erykah Badu

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

— Agnes Martin

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski