Artist Quotes · Page 283

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

— Jock Sturges

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a…

— Mary Cassatt

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in…

— Georges St-Pierre

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

— Eduard Hanslick

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

— Alan Rickman

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years…

— Thomas Hoving

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

— John Constable

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could…

— Andre Benjamin

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find…

— Anonymous

“Fantasy like thought that no man could rain Just let her reign Run wild with her unafraid Of any rain storms They…

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of…

— Arne Glimcher

“This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants…

— Clive James

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous…

— Rainn Wilson

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical…

— Edward Steichen

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

— Michel Eugene Chevreul

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

— George Herbert

Future's a workaholic. That's definitely the most hard-working artist I know.

— Metro Boomin

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

— Bret Hart

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

— Kate Bush

“Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you”

— Ginnetta Correli

Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

— Oscar Wilde

I’ve always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians.

— Jared Leto

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

— George E. P. Box

I've always wanted my art to be global rather than local. I want to make paintings that people everywhere can relate to.

— Sean Scully

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is…

— Hubert de Givenchy

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

— Seth Godin

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

— Peter Marino

I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.

— Marcel Duchamp

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else…

— Carl Andre

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

— Willem de Kooning

Anyone who asks if graffiti is really art should be cast out into a field, because they're Neanderthals.

— Goldie

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

— Shepard Fairey

I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.

— Julianne Hough

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

— Kehinde Wiley

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

— Harry Belafonte

Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way…

— Sarah Curran

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders

— Enrique Pena Nieto