Artist Quotes · Page 306

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

— Ad Reinhardt

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of…

— William Blake

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

— Gerhard Richter

“Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.”

— Clive James

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

— Hartley Coleridge

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

— Alexej von Jawlensky

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

— Pablo Picasso

If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and…

— Asger Jorn

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they…

— Travis Knight

I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be…

— Henry Miller

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental…

— Jerry Saltz

In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we…

— Guillermo del Toro

When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions…

— Francisco Costa

[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little…

— Peggy Guggenheim

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of…

— Elbert Hubbard

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

— Charley Pride

I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

— Claudia Lee

I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.

— Werner Bischof

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

— Joan Miro

Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

— Raphael Soyer

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

— Leo Steinberg

“Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.

— Tiko Kerr

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Art was Picasso’s heart. And it kept on beating for him from his birth to his death.”

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

— A. Y. Jackson

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

— Sylvester Stallone

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

— Chuck Jones

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my…

— Danny Gregory

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone…

— Bill Griffith

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and…

— Diego Rivera

From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist.

— Steve Miller

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

— John Walford

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's…

— Brynn Cartelli

You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your…

— Jill Eikenberry

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat