Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I identify first and foremost as a fine artist. Even the way that I put words together; this could be called painterly… — Marissa Nadler Copy Share Image
I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
