Artist Quotes · Page 175

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

— Mark Rothko

The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.

— Barnett Newman

An art book is a museum without walls.

— Andre Malraux

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

— Joseph Joubert

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

— Anonymous

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

— Marcel Duchamp

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

— Paul Cezanne

I was doodling and this is what I got. :P looks like poop

— Kinzz

I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

— Warren MacKenzie

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as…

— Aretha Franklin

“Thunder Road' knows who I am and what I feel, and that, in the end, is one of the consolations of art.”

— Nick Hornby

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

— Joseph Raffael

The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I…

— Guinevere Van Seenus

I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.

— Randy Houser

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.

— Richard Diebenkorn

The way to take the arts seriously is not to defend this or that art form for its own sake. Pursuing arts…

— Michael Rosen

Nobody makes art for an elite, not if they're a real artist. You try and reach as many people as possible with…

— Mel Gibson

As a breed, I think artists are never 100% satisfied with their work, and we will always want that little bit of…

— Labrinth

You don't do any show to be celebrated. In fact, you don't do any show thinking what's going to happen in the…

— Susan Stroman

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New…

— Talib Kweli

I think that Curt Swan, when he did Superman for the longest time, became the definitive Superman artist, and everybody got it.…

— Neal Adams

... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all…

— John F. Kennedy

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

— Bob Ross

“Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.”

— Salman Rushdie

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

— Eli Siegel

“A true artist feels it, a jobbing artist thinks it”

— Russell C. Brennan

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

— Ernst Gombrich

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

— Kip Winger

Timeless' was always gonna be the blueprint as an artist for me.

— Goldie

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

— Hiro Murai

All art is about appealing to emotion.

— Michael Moore

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

— Henry Moore

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

— Tahar Rahim

“I wonder if it's ok being a second-rate painter.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“May we each design our own masterpiece”

— Tammy Muehlfelder

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

— Ani DiFranco

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

— Patti Smith

The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.

— Dewitt Jones