Artist Quotes · Page 309

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

— Oscar Wilde

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

— Burton Raffel

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

— Agnes Repplier

You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.

— Richard Armitage

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if…

— Arthur Erickson

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

— Woody Allen

Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!

— Matt Squire

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

— Ondi Timoner

“Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay…

— David Bayles

Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search…

— Patrice Pavis

Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture…

— John French Sloan

It's like every time you have one of these, you're sort of - your lease is renewed another five years. And that's…

— Mark Ronson

I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don't want…

— Hayley Kiyoko

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher,…

— Steven Pinker

I guess at my core, I'm an artist. And so the opportunity to utilize my imagination, create things and share stories is…

— Judy Norton

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed…

— Sol LeWitt

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

— Marcel Duchamp

When I was a kid, trying not to color outside of the lines was my biggest problem.

— Ritu Ghatourey

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

— Bridget Riley

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

— Annaleigh Ashford

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

— Mary Heilmann

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

— Paul Smith

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

— Patricia Briggs

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

— Marcel Duchamp

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

— Ralph Steadman

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

— Pierre de Ronsard

“I wanted to paint a picture, in indelible print, across the canvass of my heart.”

— Suman Pokhrel

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

— Lukas Foss

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

— Oscar Wilde

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

— Elia Kazan

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

— Paul Mellon

Life's a canvas you're an artist, Paint a picture of a garden then go and marvel at the harvest you created from…

— Anonymous

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

— Walter Isaacson

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

— Anonymous

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

— Solomon R. Guggenheim

“Artist or no-artist, I can't pass up a piece of fried chicken when I see one.”

— Jack Kerouac

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had…

— Gauri Khan

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

— Yann Martel