Artist Quotes · Page 38

There is but one art, to omit.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Surprise is key in all art.

— Oscar Niemeyer

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

— Gerhard Richter

“Deeply in Love wit Art”

— Srinivart

Art must not serve might.

— Karel Capek

I love painting soo relaxing hmmm

— Rose

All artists are a little off.

— Eddie Griffin

Didacticism is the death of art.

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

I'm not necessarily a happy singer. That's not who I am as an artist.

— Melanie Martinez

Becoming a Top Ten artist has surprised me.

— Billy Squier

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

— Henry James

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

— Beatrice Dalle

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

— Josef Albers

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

— Frederick Sommer

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

— Virginia Woolf

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

— Frida Kahlo

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it…

— David Hockney

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

— George Stillman Hillard

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm…

— Rachel Kushner

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

— Michel Faber

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the…

— Wayne Thiebaud

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

— Vivienne Westwood

I'd like to think I'm a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am.

— Calum Scott

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

— Eli Siegel

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan.…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Nearly always in Dutch painting and often in the works of Giorgione or Titian, it is entirely independent of anything definitely poetical…

— Oscar Wilde

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting,…

— Anonymous

Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and…

— Lewis Mumford

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.…

— John F. Kennedy

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one…

— Felix Mendelssohn

“Maja sighed and cleared away the glasses and plates. "Artists certainly aren't easy people." "No," Eva giggled. "but somebody's got to take…

— Karin Fossum

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are it's only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them…

— Benedetto Croce

Art is the proper task of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art and life are inseparable.

— Eva Hesse

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

— Bam Margera

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

— Fran Lebowitz

Life should be art, right?

— Brian Tyree Henry

I am only an artist.

— Shefali Zariwala

Artists deserve to make a living

— Larry Harvey

Art is the triumph over chaos.

— John Cheever