Artist Quotes · Page 460

“Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art.”

— Leo Tolstoy

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is…

— Pablo Picasso

“Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.”

— Nikki Rowe

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

— Georg Baselitz

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

— Eric Drooker

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

— Rachel Stevens

“Art was, for Poe, the only method by which one could penetrate the shapeless empirical world in the search for order, and”

— Edgar Allan Poe

When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive…

— Stanley Kunitz

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and…

— Nathan Parsons

I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the…

— Graham Cray

“The cessation of art is something that can only be accomplished when art disappears into its own excess. And that occasion, according…

— Eldritch Priest

“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in…

— Walter Isaacson

Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough…

— Cynthia Daignault

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I felt about life and the way I felt about my children was so deep and profound. It was the first time…

— Jennifer Lopez

It's the only pawnshop I know that's got real Picassos hanging on the wall. I have Salvador Dalis on the wall. I…

— Rick Harrison

Sir My Art Indian Flag In The Eye Of A Needle I Sad. My 10 Yers Lost Of Of ArtWork How To…

— Ashwanart

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

— D. H. Lawrence

I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than…

— William Hogarth

I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes…

— Stephen Huneck

I'm probably the biggest show-off in the world. But I also happen to be an artist. You can be both, you know.

— Keith Allen

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

— Alberto Giacometti

“Art has one purpose, that is to leave you changed. Love has one purpose, that is to create art.”

— Julieanne O'Connor

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but…

— Greg Sestero

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in…

— Patti Smith

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Life is like a canvas. It begins blank and every day is like another brush stroke.

— Babloo

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't…

— Miles Davis

“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is…

— Marcel Proust

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I…

— Jo Stafford

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

— Harold Rosenberg

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.

— Yvette Mimieux

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

— Ben Lerner

Bhaskar Hazarika makes a strong debut with 'Kothanodi', revisiting stories he read as a kid, painted beautifully with mature strokes.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

— Cheryl Rainfield

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

— Robert Barry

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

— William Wordsworth

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne