Artist Quotes · Page 222

The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.

— Thomas Eakins

It's a thrill to see the birth of an artist.

— Rene Angelil

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

— Robert Henri

I'm a writer who just happens to draw

— Matt Groening

For any artist, it is the biggest dream for his work to reach places.

— Devi Sri Prasad

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

— Pope Pius IX

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

— Theodore Dreiser

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

— Bridget Riley

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

— Chuck Close

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

— Alice Walker

You might not be the greatest rapper or singer, but the businessman always outlasts the talent.

— Eric B

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

— Sol LeWitt

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

— Ahmed Best

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

— Samuel Beckett

I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess…

— Franz Wright

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're…

— David Chase

An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That…

— Anton Chekhov

“All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they…

— Walpola Rahula

What people that are professionals in the art world - both in literature and the other arts - always try to do…

— Stuart Franklin

I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a…

— Ellen Dissanayake

Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such…

— Baker Brownell

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you…

— Jeannette Walls

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

— William Morris Hunt

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

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

— Yayoi Kusama

“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 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

I painted myself out of my painting.

— Milton Resnick

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

— Al Hirschfeld

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

— Milan Kundera

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

— Genesis P-Orridge

“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

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

— Raoul Dufy