Artist Quotes · Page 177

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

— Genesis P-Orridge

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

— Milan Kundera

“Emotions of every color create the rich work of art that is life.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“[Like they say,] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.”

— Dave Courtney

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

— Yoko Ono

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

— Albert Einstein

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

— Anonymous

“Merely corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and——”

— W.S. Gilbert

That, to me, is the real crossover: a mainstream artist singing in Spanish.

— Ozuna

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole…

— Ansel Elgort

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

— George Lucas

“Van Gogh, Modigliani, Hiroshige, etc., didn’t know merde about yachts, 8-star hotels, infinite pools, private jets...”

— Alexander Akyna

Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.

— Evelyn De Morgan

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

— Sigfried Giedion

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

— Gustave Flaubert

I just want to continue adding walls to my craft as an artist and business man. I never want to cap off,…

— Eskeerdo

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve…

— Willa Cather

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her…

— Shea Hembrey

I sent an ex of mine an enormous oil painting of me as a housewarming gift. It was one of the most…

— Sue Perkins

Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them…

— Alasdair Gray

“To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to think that the world is good. It is enough to…

— Joseph Conrad

I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been…

— Michael Heizer

Becoming mature is not important for art. Technical perfection is not relevant to art. Precision in art is only achieved by total…

— Jonathan Meese

I painted myself out of my painting.

— Milton Resnick

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

— Al Hirschfeld

Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.

— John French Sloan

Art is manipulation without intervention.

— Louise Bourgeois

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener

— Arnold Schoenberg

“The master painter makes art with any brush.”

— Takeshi Konomi

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul

— Eleanora Duse

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

— Yayoi Kusama

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

— Pope Pius IX

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”

— Theodore Dreiser

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

— William Morris Hunt

This is one image. This is one moment. This is one statement. ARTPOP

— Lady Gaga

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

— Theodore Roethke

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

— Lorde

Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.

— Richelle Mead

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

— Helen Frankenthaler