Artist Quotes · Page 360

“This is not drawing,' he cried, 'this is inspiration!' 'I had meant it to be drawing,' was Constable's characteristic answer.”

— Aldous Huxley

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model...

— Paul Gauguin

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not…

— Joseph Jarman

The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.

— Erwin Panofsky

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from…

— Jasper Johns

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

— Edouard Manet

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

— Alexander Calder

I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and…

— Jarod Kintz

Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they…

— Edy Ganem

After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It…

— Tom Platz

My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and…

— Burton Silverman

My songs are not angry or bitter, because I am not bitter. I'm hopeful, and as an artist I have to be,…

— Gulzar

Museums and galleries do recruit art historians, but they are overwhelmingly white and middle class, or else from abroad. They understandably fret…

— Munira Mirza

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a…

— John Carney

When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the…

— John Berger

There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's…

— William Butler Yeats

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

— Jan Tschichold

I'm not just going to accept something because it's a lot of money. I'm an artist; content is incredibly important to me.

— Nina Dobrev

“I was trained to draw them to me. To find out what they were most ashamed of wanting, and to give it…

— Kit Rocha

I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly…

— Adi Shankar

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

— William Morris

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.

— Robert Zoellick

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

— Wes Nisker

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

— Chath Piersath

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

— John James Audubon

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

— Lucian Freud

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it…

— Leo Steinberg

“Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective.”

— Vera Nazarian

“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn’t.” —Craig Damrauer The”

— Austin Kleon

Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.

— JR

As we honor and take time to appreciate the arts we expand the beauty and culture of society.

— Senoraroy

“After all is said and done, it is the exhibition that should be well-hung.”

— n+1

I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors.

— Ben Eine

People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in…

— Rod McKuen

Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at…

— Jeff Ament

I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like…

— David Lynch

Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always…

— Muriel Rukeyser