Artist Quotes · Page 67

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

— Herbert Read

“The English artist likes line more than color or texture.”

— Neville Weston

I drew this last year for art. Yay or nay?

— Aly Johnson

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

— Alex Colville

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

— Robert Delaunay

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

— Ana Castillo

As an artist you have to keep reinventing yourself.

— David Hammons

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

— Kenneth Noland

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

— Agnes de Mille

If it makes you less sad, I'll take your pictures all down. Every picture you paint, I will paint myself out.

— Brand New

I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.”

— Oscar Wilde

Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

— Marjane Satrapi

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and…

— Cy Twombly

Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too…

— Cecily Brown

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft,…

— Paul Cezanne

It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected…

— Leopold Stokowski

There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this…

— Jerry Saltz

I would like to say a few things about that photo in 'Tatler'. I have no regrets. The article was about the…

— Amanda Foreman

In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this…

— Jules Olitski

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get…

— Tove Styrke

All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second,…

— Marco Pierre White

They're not dogs [poodles], they're art.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

— Edouard Manet

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

— Ken Danby

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

— Gao Xingjian

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

— Jack Levine

I want painting to be difficult to do.

— Richard Diebenkorn

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

— Mackenzie Crook

“Art isn’t about where it ends up. It’s about the creation.”

— Lauren Dane

You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

— Eran Creevy

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

— John Kurtz

I am not the perfect piece for your perfect art.

— Joantonette Morano

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

— Rachel Dratch

“Art takes time— Monet grew his gardens before he painted them.”

— Atticus Poetry

My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs