Artist Quotes · Page 184

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

I feel the first award any artist can have is his audience.

— Romeo Santos

Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.

— Frank Gehry

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

— Marc Chagall

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

— Glenn Close

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

— Billy Al Bengston

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

— Jeffrey Archer

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

— Norman Mailer

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented…

— Mary Pope Osborne

I don't need to be everywhere because my art pieces can talk for themselves.

— Jeppe Hein

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.

— Lewis Black

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

— Claude Monet

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

— Winston Churchill

“art is worthless unless it plants a measure of splendor in people's hearts”

— Taha Muhammad Ali

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

— Thia Megia

I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead…

— Kim Gordon

“Putting art on the walls of your home or body is a very important decision to make, and one not to be…

— Cary G. Weldy

Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory…

— Harold Rosenberg

We definitely classify things in order to get closer to what we believe in - so it serves a purpose to really…

— Robin Pecknold

I think Pac is one of those artists that generations on generations know who this guy is, as an artist, as an…

— Annie Ilonzeh

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not,…

— David Shrigley

If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according…

— Eugene Delacroix

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything…

— William Bell

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

— Raoul Dufy

The spirit of love and good art have equal beauty

— Masahisa Goi

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

— David Bailey

I'm not an industry artist - I'm an artist in the industry.

— DMX

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

— Brian Eno

“A work of art is like living people.”

— Muriel Spark

The artist must know how far to go too far.

— Jean Cocteau

Art has to be reflective of our society.

— David Zayas

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

— John Piper

“People looking at art but missing the beauty in people.”

— Reuben Berger

Matisse renovates rather than innovates.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

The industry is a menace to artists.

— Nikki Sixx

I think there is a real art to walkabouts.

— Kate Middleton

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

— Joseph Pisani

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

— Conway Twitty

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

— Marilyn Monroe