Artist Quotes · Page 88

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.

— Walter Savage Landor

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

— Austin O'Malley

The artist...is the voice of the people.

— Alice Walker

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

— Ivan Turgenev

As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.

— Georg Baselitz

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

— Maria Callas

I hate art as a be-all and an end-all.

— Leo Sayer

I like to paint mountain ranges that are just curved blobs.

— Eva Victor

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

— Ai Weiwei

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

— Edna Longley

I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

— William Blake

Life is a one-way street, and if you could paint it. I'd draw myself going in the right direction.

— Gnarls Barkley

“The artist is a constructor of mirrors through which humanity can recognize their own beauty.”

— Manuela Nicolini

“We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

“Exploration is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is…

— John R. Stilgoe

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

— Howard Hodgkin

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which…

— Walter Bagehot

“The convent of the sacred order of the Blessed Ladies of the Lobster had once been a dank and dark medieval castle…

— Jasper Fforde

At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of…

— Anonymous

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife…

— Ben Shahn

I'm not really biased towards any medium, you know. What's important to me...obviously, you have to do some job to help you…

— Matthew Bomer

Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's…

— Kehinde Wiley

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work…

— Joseph Kosuth

I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint,…

— Gerhard Richter

“And in the end, children; Art prevailed over the cruel, dumb-fuckers.”

— Fred Babb

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

— Paul Cezanne

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

— Samuel Butler

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

— Anonymous

Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.

— Andrew Lam

“Art does not surpass nature but perfects it.”

— Cervantes

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

— Edvard Munch

“What is art except being the real estate agent of your own neuroses.”

— Guillaume Morissette

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

— Susan Sontag

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

— Margrethe II of Denmark

The art of making art, is putting it together…

— Stephen Sondheim

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I want to be a good person first and a good artist second.

— Kelsea Ballerini

The arts are what humanize science and history.

— Danny K. Davis

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

— Grace Hartigan

“In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein