Artist Quotes · Page 476

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

— Robert Genn

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

— John Singer Sargent

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people…

— Frank Gehry

“It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.”

— Hermann Bahr

The first tour an artist does is a strange one... because you can never tell how the audience is going to react.

— Labrinth

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

It's really rare that an entire genre of music allows an artist from a different genre to come and live there.

— Ne-Yo

I'm a huge fan of Geffen records. Everything about them - their artists, their videos, their marketing.

— Guy Oseary

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists…

— Chuck Close

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

— Marie-Antoine Careme

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars…

— Richard P. Feynman

“The earliest corporations to provide major funding to museums were tobacco and oil companies, which likely sought to polish tarnished images by…

— Cynthia Freeland

Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, "I don't like this painting." But then I wake up in the morning, look at it…

— Rebecca Horn

I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people…

— Goapele

[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that…

— John Berger

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember…

— James Rosenquist

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

— Wayne Coyne

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

— William Hazlitt

Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that…

— Cameron Dallas

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

— Pablo Picasso

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

— Nikolay Semyonov

There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as…

— Warren MacKenzie

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

— Susan Sontag

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

— Philippe Falardeau

As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.

— Wayne White

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

— D. H. Lawrence

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of…

— Jennifer Stone

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed…

— Leonardo da Vinci

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso

— Aroha Janet

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect…

— Questlove

“Really, I think one's art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes”

— Andrew Wyeth

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't…

— Caio Fonseca

He has painted many roses for me. My walls are covered with Howard originals.

— Beth Ostrosky Stern

“I'm often painted as the bad kid, The other side of me wants to hand out the brush”

— Patrick Cruz

The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

— Calvin Trillin

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

— Maurice Sendak

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

— Plautus

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

— John Constable