Artist Quotes · Page 422

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

— Adrienne Monnier

My drawings may not be so good but they are pretty cool comment please and thank you

— Brianna Ramos

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

— Dave Hickey

There is an indefinable quality possessed by some artists. You simply can't explain it.

— Vera-Ellen

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

— Paul Cezanne

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

— Lord Acton

Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the…

— Jonathan Lethem

Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,…

— Deborah Smith

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the…

— Bridget Riley

Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious…

— Simon de Pury

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it…

— Melanie Fiona

Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to…

— William Morris

While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no…

— Eric Maisel

I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

— Jonathan Lethem

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

— Robert Breault

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

— Iris Murdoch

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

— Samuel Barnett

The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.

— Robert Indiana

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

— John French Sloan

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people…

— Robert Henri

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

— Roger Scruton

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

— Walter J. Phillips

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to…

— Eric Drooker

“I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable.”

— Marina Leigh Duff

Be careful how you speak to people and how you treat people, life if the art of drawing without an eraser

— Anonymous

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

— Salvador Dali

“An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it.”

— Christopher Moore

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture.

— Julio Iglesias

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

— Joni Mitchell

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

— Judy Dater

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

— Abbey Lincoln