Artist Quotes · Page 477

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like…

— Takeshi Kitano

“Art is not an assembly of accidents. You have to master the rules before you break them.”

— M. Pierce

I was bored in maths 2day and I decided 2 draw a pic of my maths teacher LOL1 xxxx

— Shaniaacannon

The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

— Robert Henri

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is vital for artists to nurture and protect that which will make their vision unique.

— Jane Fulton Alt

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never…

— Gustave Flaubert

“FV: Hasn't all art, in a way, submitted to words - reduced itself to the literary...admitted its failure through all the catalogues…

— Mort W. Lumsden

The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what…

— Chuck Schuldiner

When I commit to working with an artist, I give them as much respect as I would like and if I'm not…

— Wayne White

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that…

— Lucian Freud

From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the…

— Paul Klee

Art is an amazing form of being able to share our experiences and tell stories and hopefully relate to other people, but…

— Lily Collins

The voice of painterly integrity spoke to me. And the idea was that one would find this anguish, or whatever, and construct…

— Malcolm Morley

Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into…

— Semir Zeki

“The artist realizes himself in his work; the mind realizes itself in life.”

— Asanaro

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

— Thomas Cole

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more…

— David Foster Wallace

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.

— Henry Moore

“I don’t think that art can change the world. But at least art can help us to unveil life.”

— Eugene Lim

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what…

— David Bowie

“A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.”

— Amit Kalantri

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things…

— Wayne Thiebaud

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to…

— Pierre Soulages

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an…

— Edward Gorey

Art is...a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.

— Aaron Howard

At art school you realize that in order to stay engaged you have to ignore the critics, good and bad.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I started work as a makeup artist at the BBC, which was a vibrant, exciting and caring place.

— Dave Myers

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

— Guido Molinari

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

— Antoni Tapies

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

— Louise Bogan

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

— Mark Rothko

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The second painting of the Painter, will come out better than the first one.

— Hemistich

I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.

— Zachary Levi

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

— Robin Morgan

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

— Jerry Saltz

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.

— Robert Breault