Artist Quotes · Page 59

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

— Nancy Lancaster

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

— Simon Callow

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

— Louis Kronenberger

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

— Marcel Duchamp

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

— Philip Guston

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

— Flora Thompson

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

— David Hockney

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

— Oscar Wilde

The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

— Leland Bell

“Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh,…

— Kate Taylor

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

— Sara Genn

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

— Lawrence Durrell

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

— Bill Jay

Im a tenant my opinion is monumental Im here forever, these other n-ggas scribble in pencil.

— Wale

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

— Seth Godin

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the…

— Ron Moody

“Seeing how prominently Edmond had displayed the masterpiece, Langdon wondered if perhaps the painting itself might hold some clue as to what…

— Dan Brown

“The point of art is not to give you what you already feel comfortable with; that’s reporting, not art, that TV, not…

— André Aciman

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a…

— Terence McKenna

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his…

— Aasif Mandvi

It's been frustrating that people only saw me as a 'featured artist' for a while, but in terms of making an album,…

— Becky Hill

... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after…

— Gabriel Orozco

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that…

— Andy Warhol

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

— Jean Toomer

“If there is no feeling, there cannot be great art.”

— Ray Bradbury

Dancers are both athletes and artists.

— Margot Fonteyn

All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.

— Alexander Liberman

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

— Camille Pissarro

“The idea becomes a machine that makes art.”

— Sol LeWitt

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

— Madeleine L'Engle

For any artist, it is the biggest dream for his work to reach places.

— Devi Sri Prasad

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

— Robert Henri

I'm a writer who just happens to draw

— Matt Groening

It's a thrill to see the birth of an artist.

— Rene Angelil

The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.

— Thomas Eakins

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

— William Morris Hunt

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”

— Theodore Dreiser

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

— Pope Pius IX

“The master painter makes art with any brush.”

— Takeshi Konomi