Artist Quotes · Page 410

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

— Allan Kaprow

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

— C.D. Wright

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

— Agatha Christie

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

— Georges Vantongerloo

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

— Courtney Barnett

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

— Jeffrey Smart

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

— Charles Tart

Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to…

— Raymond Pettibon

It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty…

— Graeme Base

Drawing will never go out of date because, you know, you've still got to have the imaginative thought. You've got to react…

— Grayson Perry

I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world…

— Katie Kitamura

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art…

— Georges Braque

I really tried to work out hard to emulate the look and feel of the character, and did my best to represent…

— Daniel Cudmore

Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And…

— Michael Crichton

I was born in Indiana and raised in Oregon and there's a strong sense of individualism, particularly in Oregon. And my mom…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

— Adam West

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the…

— Robert Wilson

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

— Adam Gopnik

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and…

— Jeff Koons

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young…

— Hozier

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

— Edward Abbey

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

— Edouard Manet

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

— Claire Bloom

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to…

— Willa Cather

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

— Anthony Braxton

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to…

— Ezra Pound

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though…

— James Whistler

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that…

— Ossie Davis

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

— Richard Armitage

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

— Barnett Newman

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

— Jackson Pollock

Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.

— Eric Maisel

I grew up being an artist, but also rock-climbing and traveling the world and teaching my kids.

— Jason Momoa

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

— Nathan Goldstein

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

— Alan Moore

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

— Egon Friedell