Artist Quotes · Page 228

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

— Susan Sontag

There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as…

— Warren MacKenzie

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

— Nikolay Semyonov

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

— Pablo Picasso

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed…

— Leonardo da Vinci

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso

— Aroha Janet

I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen…

— Sally Mann

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at…

— Paul Gauguin

But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very…

— Colin Wilson

I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op…

— M. C. Escher

My songwriting has brought so much to me as an artist and my ability that I have as an artist has brought…

— Ahmad Balshe

For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself…

— Anonymous

It’s time for a streaming service that is centred around and driven by the artist community directly. Artists are prolific beyond a…

— Daniel Lanois

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of…

— Jennifer Stone

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

— D. H. Lawrence

As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.

— Wayne White

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

— Philippe Falardeau

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't…

— Caio Fonseca

“Really, I think one's art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes”

— Andrew Wyeth

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect…

— Questlove

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

— Plautus

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

— Maurice Sendak

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

— Calvin Trillin

The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

“I'm often painted as the bad kid, The other side of me wants to hand out the brush”

— Patrick Cruz

He has painted many roses for me. My walls are covered with Howard originals.

— Beth Ostrosky Stern

“Art is not an assembly of accidents. You have to master the rules before you break them.”

— M. Pierce

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like…

— Takeshi Kitano

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

— John Constable

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never…

— Gustave Flaubert

It is vital for artists to nurture and protect that which will make their vision unique.

— Jane Fulton Alt

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

— George Bernard Shaw

The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

— Robert Henri

I was bored in maths 2day and I decided 2 draw a pic of my maths teacher LOL1 xxxx

— Shaniaacannon

“The artist realizes himself in his work; the mind realizes itself in life.”

— Asanaro

“I don’t think that art can change the world. But at least art can help us to unveil life.”

— Eugene Lim