Artist Quotes · Page 482

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

— Jamie Wyeth

Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.

— Ovid

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but…

— Robert South

Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever.

— Gary Busey

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

— John Lone

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

— Francis Bacon

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

— Tyler Cowen

“All dahlias are beautiful in their own way! I love them because they have the most perfect symmetry and come in a…

— Chantal Larocque

I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a…

— Gerhard Richter

We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then…

— Aldous Huxley

“Against all expectations, the symptoms of Van Gogh’s mental illness are conspicuous by their almost complete absence from his letters. Much as…

— Vincent van Gogh

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's not always about working with the hottest artist. I sometimes go for challenges although people look at me strangely like, 'Why…

— Scott Storch

“The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because…

— Jose Saramago

“Yet, in the middle of all this grief, I realize there’s a part of me clinical enough to want to document it.…

— Kirsty Eagar

I'm trying to inspire as many people as I can. I want the viewer to enjoy the art and I want the…

— Nathan Sawaya

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

— Walead Beshty

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to…

— David Antin

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

— Ice Cube

Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

— Julia Cameron

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

— Julia Cameron

Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

— Charles Saatchi

Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.

— Joan Mitchell

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

— Agnes Martin

“The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.”

— Oscar Wilde

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I don't consider myself a political artist, but I am political just by nature of being a woman.

— Lisa Hanawalt

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

— Anthony Burgess

Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing…

— Cornelia Parker

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think I am an artist. I think I am Juan Gabriel, who has given so much with my songs.

— Juan Gabriel

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

— Marina Abramovic

“If you are a real artist, you give your whole being to your art. Anything short of that, then you are not…

— John Fowles

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it…

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

— Sherman Alexie

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods,…

— Alfred Brendel

Masterpieces are not made in 5 minutes. It takes hard work, dedication, and lots of determination.

— Tony Saavedra