Artist Quotes · Page 115

An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.

— Laurence Gartel

“Through art we discover that we are not alone.”

— Arnold Weinstein

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

— Audrey Flack

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

— Twyla Tharp

I especially like to collect contemporary art.

— Yusaku Maezawa

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

— Henri Matisse

I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.

— Carson Ellis

My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

— Robert Lyn Nelson

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...

— Lawrence Durrell

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

— John French Sloan

“New forms of the artistic register are one of the infallible signs of an authentic moment.”

— Christopher Hitchens

One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.

— Gino Severini

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded…

— Theodor Adorno

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

— Corita Kent

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

— Jackson Pollock

People talk about the pop part - they don't talk about me being an independent artist. I made it look easy, that's…

— Dizzee Rascal

I wake up each day with a greater appreciation of the world, my unique place in it and the limitless possibilities that…

— Innah Delos Angeles

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am.…

— Yolanda Adams

My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but…

— Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“if you didn’t take picture from museum, and Sascha didn’t steal it back, and I didn’t think of claiming reward—well, wouldn’t all…

— Donna Tartt

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought…

— Brice Marden

“I should’ve probably warned you: once you end a relationship with an artist, you are perpetually reminded of them. They have now…

— Kamand Kojouri

I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is…

— Sandra Bullock

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

— Lincoln Steffens

I'm not like any other artist, point blank.

— Blackbear

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

— Marsilio Ficino

Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

— Nikhil Saluja

When it comes to style, there are no facts; only opinions.

— Melody Minagar

“To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.”

— M. Thomas Gammarino

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

— Anonymous

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

— Robert Redford

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

— Philip Larkin

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

— Gustave Flaubert

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

— Rachel Zucker

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

— Thomas Merton

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

— John Dyer

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

— Robert Burns