Artist Quotes · Page 102

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

— Harold Rosenberg

Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.

— Jimmy Iovine

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.

— Camille

I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.

— Tracey Emin

Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.

— John Opie

“Love is a more wonderful thing than art.”

— Oscar Wilde

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

— Andrew Brown

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

— Anonymous

Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.

— Joe Nichols

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

— Vivek Shraya

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

— Pablo Picasso

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

— Witold Gombrowicz

The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.

— Ralph Allen

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

— Sidney Lumet

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“I hate when art becomes a religion. I feel the opposite. When you start putting a higher value on works of art…

— Woody Allen

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing.…

— David Hockney

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they…

— Frank Stella

As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I…

— Isak Dinesen

It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their…

— Fred Kaplan

What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

— Sol Saks

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

— Paul Cezanne

Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

— Paula Scher

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

— Josef Albers

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

— Frederick Sommer

Expectations are kind of lethal for art, I think.

— Hari Nef

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

— Virginia Woolf

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

— Frida Kahlo

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,

— Robert Genn

Art has made me calmer and more content.

— Shefali Shah

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.

— Diego Rivera

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

— Steven Seagal

All artists need a room of their own

— Virginia Woolf

I'm not necessarily a happy singer. That's not who I am as an artist.

— Melanie Martinez

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

— Henry James