Artist Quotes · Page 114

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.

— Norman Granz

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

— William Golding

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

— Paul Cezanne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

— David Milne

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

— Erwin McManus

“An artist, if you’d really like to know who’s fucking your wife.”

— Pella Grace

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

— Sterling K. Brown

To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular.

— Sylvester Stallone

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Andy Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

— Andy Cohen

If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave…

— Edouard Manet

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

— Stacy Martin

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

— Chris Marker

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

— Roy DeCarava

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

— Andy Warhol

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

— Anonymous

“Participation in an art, although unrewarded by wealth or fame...is a way to make one's soul grow.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also…

— Steven Soderbergh

The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent…

— Jonathan Zittrain

My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork…

— Eli Broad

Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the…

— Victor Turner

My treasure chest is filled with gold. Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . . Vagabond's gold and…

— Don Blanding

What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there…

— Louise Bourgeois

I'm creating my own oasis in my house. I've got a lot of calming, soothing things around my house. The way it's…

— Ryan Guzman

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an…

— Paul Virilio

“But then, no artist is normal; if he were, he wouldn’t be an artist.”

— Rory Noland

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

— William Morris Hunt

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

— Francis Bacon

In a pinch, I could always get work in pictures as a makeup artist.

— Lana Wood

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

— William Blake

“Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?”

— Maurice Ravel

“Life is an empty canvas, we have to paint it every moment of life”

— elvis laren

From the words of juan gris himself, I am cubism, I am life its self.

— Juan Gris

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

— David Toop

“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

— Okakura Kakuzo

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

— David Hockney

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

“Art is the lie that tells the truth”

— Cris Beam

This is you sam I drew you... sorry it looks weird

— Anonymous

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

— Anonymous