Artist Quotes · Page 90

“Art is the passion born from a souls divine connection to God”

— La Shea M Johnson

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

— Robert Motherwell

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

— Alain de Botton

“Draftsmen may be made, but colorists are born.”

— Eugène Delacroix

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

— Dziga Vertov

“Art, after all, is - at its best - a lie that tells us the truth.”

— Nam Le

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

— Brooks Atkinson

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

— Vanessa Mae

“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”

— Jessie Fothergill

I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been…

— Sevyn Streeter

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

— Elisabeth Hasselbeck

For me, being an artist was a thing that, like, rich people in New York and L.A. and Paris and Rome did.…

— Cord Jefferson

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

— Paul Klee

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

— Terry Gross

If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.

— Demetri Martin

“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art…

— Alain de Botton

I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of…

— Annie Dillard

I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead…

— Kim Gordon

We definitely classify things in order to get closer to what we believe in - so it serves a purpose to really…

— Robin Pecknold

Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory…

— Harold Rosenberg

“Putting art on the walls of your home or body is a very important decision to make, and one not to be…

— Cary G. Weldy

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether…

— Judy Chicago

The biggest possible thing that we're trying to do is change the conversation about what it means to be a working artist…

— Nikka Graff Lanzarone

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

— Fra Angelico

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

— Brion Gysin

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

— Rita Mae Brown

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

— Ovid

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

— John Edgar Park

“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.”

— Pablo Piccasso

“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

— Brian Selznick

Work always gives me an opportunity to grow as an artist and a person.

— Valentina

“The best of all lost arts is honesty”

— Twain, Mark

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

— Liam Cunningham

“To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.”

— Patti Smith

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

— Rembrandt

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

— Thomas Jefferson

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

— Lionel Trilling