Artist Quotes · Page 383

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough…

— Claude Monet

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

— Robert Genn

“Life is a beautiful canvas, paint it with passion and diligence. Don't scribble on it with regrets.”

— Priyansha Vashi

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

— Kirsten Dunst

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

— Andre Holland

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

— Oscar Wilde

“One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than…

— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but…

— Sigfried Giedion

Unfortunately, you don't get artist development anymore. Record companies have become a huge corporate thing. It used to be you'd meet someone…

— David Vanian

I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see…

— Jerry Saltz

Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that.…

— Daryl Hall

The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,…

— James Joyce

I think that's what so exquisite and unique about New York, it's a city that allows you to hone your craft as…

— Nina Arianda

“Let the Art be brought back only for the good of the world. If it isn the hand of one who would…

— Gary D. Schmidt

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

— Franz Werfel

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

'Rent' resonates with people across generations because it's really great art.

— Jordan Fisher

Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.

— Ben Eine

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

— Pierre Bonnard

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

— Olivier Megaton

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

— Stephen Gardiner

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

— Doseone

I work with an amazing team - I have a stylist and a hairdresser and make-up artist who are always wondering what…

— Netta Barzilai

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.

— Jack White

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

— Anthony Caro

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

— Vivienne Westwood

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

— Billy Childish

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

— Henrik Vibskov

I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for…

— Charles Clarke

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

— Robert Genn

I live life. I experience things. I go through ups and downs, and so I express them creatively and artistically.

— Sky Blu

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

— Henry David Thoreau

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to…

— Michael Haneke

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

“PAINT it! It's called Passion,Ambition,Inspiration,Notion and Transformation.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

I can paint what's goin through my mind, racing against myself but I'm a couple steps behind.

— Drake