Artist Quotes · Page 188

“Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.”

— Iimani David

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

— Bruce Campbell

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

— James Howell

What a society deems important is enshrined in its art

— Harry S. Broudy

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

— Benjamin Franklin

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

— Georges Braque

A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

— William Shakespeare

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

— Pitbull

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods,…

— Alfred Brendel

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act…

— Jasper Johns

The philosophy behind Patreon is that all the great art we have known has been made because of patronage.

— Jack Conte

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

— Edward Weston

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

— Jeff Koons

Masterpieces are not made in 5 minutes. It takes hard work, dedication, and lots of determination.

— Tony Saavedra

My wife is an artist, a painter. We are accustomed to being unemployed for long stretches of time. We know how to…

— Jack Savoretti

I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.

— Philippe Petit

“The artist and the fundamentalist arise from societies at differing stages of development. The artist is the advanced model. His culture possesses…

— Steven Pressfield

To get out of desperate situation can only be done by education and by openness for Indonesians. Everybody who can, should be…

— Andre Vltchek

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will…

— Henri Matisse

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he…

— Henri Matisse

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter…

— Joni Mitchell

I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere…

— Farah Diba

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with…

— Bertolt Brecht

What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A…

— Henri Matisse

“Painting is the grandchild of Nature.”

— Rembrandt Van Rijn

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

— John Dryden

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

— Caroline Gordon

For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.

— Clement Greenberg

Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

— Rachel Kushner

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

— James Acaster

I'm no art buff but I do have some art in my flat.

— Tim Key

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

— Henri Matisse

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Art is what we do when we're truly alive.

— Seth Godin

Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.

— Reinhold Messner

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

— Lucian Freud

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

— Edward Abbey

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

— Michelangelo

I just can't seem to paint nice things.

— Ivan Albright

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

— Leon Trotsky