Artist Quotes · Page 215

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

— Henri Matisse

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

— Andre Gide

Love-making is an art which must be studied.

— Ivor Novello

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

— Kate Jackson

I paint my face because 50 percent of me is dead inside.

— Darby Allin

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

— Josef Albers

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

— Audre Lorde

Look what I drew this awesome I think

— Brianna Ramos

I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it.

— Faith Ringgold

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

— Julian Schnabel

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

— John Elkann

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

— Paul Kane

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

— Hippolyte Taine

Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in…

— Patti Smith

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

— Jeanne Moreau

The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

— L. Ron Hubbard

If it weren't for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my…

— Milos Forman

I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the…

— Richard MacDonald

“Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour - that is all. It…

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents,…

— John Ruskin

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all…

— George Maciunas

Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the…

— Thomas Kinkade

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between…

— Peter Kreeft

Even when the light at the end does seem faint. You are the creator with the canvas and the paint. It's never…

— Raghib Clitso

I work on drawing as a final product.

— Deanna Petherbridge

“Art doesn’t fill a space—it transforms it into something sacred.”

— Jennifer Pierre

In the arts there are many right answers.

— Jerry Uelsmann

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

— Abby Martin

“I'm... a blank canvas. There's nothing here to love.”

— Stephanie Perkins

I'm not a mainstream country artist, and I never will be.

— Lari White

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

— Hugo Chavez

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

— Winslow Homer

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist

— Anish Kapoor

I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers,

— Janis Joplin

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

— Damian Loeb

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

— Louis C. K

“ Let Art be your weapon, and you would never be defeated.”

— Bam Zakariya