Artist Quotes · Page 396

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

— A. Y. Jackson

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

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

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

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

“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

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

— Steve Miller

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

— Diego Rivera

I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature…

— Helen Frankenthaler

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well,…

— David Hockney

“As I see it, even though the cartridge’s end has both characters emoting out of every pore, Accomplice!’s essential project remains abstract…

— David Foster Wallace

“He hauled in Michelangelo, commanding the aged maestro to make the naked figures in The Last Judgment “suitable” for the papal chapel.…

— Benjamin Blech

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just…

— Henri Matisse

Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels…

— Leon Golub

Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of…

— Maurice Blanchot

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along…

— Anne Truitt

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

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

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

— Robert Genn

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

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

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 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

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

— John Walford

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

— Virgil Abloh

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

— Warren MacKenzie

They say life is like art and the world is your canvas, whether your picture be good or bad it will always…

— Anonymous

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

— Christopher Priest

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

— Arthur Wesley Dow

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit…

— Louis Riel

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

— Nate Lowman

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

— Jerry Harrison

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

— Gene Black

“With the holy touch of art, human life has become less lonely and more esthetical!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

— Gustave Flaubert

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting…

— Richard Artschwager

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

— Francis Bacon