Artist Quotes · Page 220

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

— Ronald Harwood

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

A cartoon drawing of me that I drew yesterday

— Crystal

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

— Leon Battista Alberti

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

— Madonna Ciccone

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception,

— John Maeda

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

— Joanna Russ

I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging.

— Kali Uchis

I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins.

— Fritz Scholder

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

— Aisling Bea

“We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I can draw like it’s nobody’s business. I use my door as a canvas, so don’t knock, because it’s nobody’s business.”

— Jarod Kintz

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

— Ellie Goulding

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be… The…

— Sarah Bernhardt

I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that's how reality always is - it's this duality…

— Weyes Blood

I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related,…

— Sasha Pivovarova

I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university,…

— Tom Robbins

It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something…

— Ethan Slater

I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I…

— Claes Oldenburg

Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and…

— Jane Hirshfield

As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

— Joseph Campbell

Where does contagion end and art begin?

— Neil Gaiman

“Jesus, you get sentimental when you're high on paint fumes.”

— Lisa Kleypas

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

— Georg Baselitz

Getting in the paint is one of my keys.

— Luka Doncic

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

— Anonymous

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

— Ross Bleckner

The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.

— John Lennon

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

— Anne Jackson

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

— William Shakespeare

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

— Eugene Ionesco

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

— Andre Derain

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

— Seth Godin

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

— Lorrie Moore

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

— Mark Foster