Artist Quotes · Page 120

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

— Benjamin West

There are lots of artists I respect and admire.

— Lisa Stansfield

“the artist plays freely on his faculty of cognition.”

— Jostein Gaarder

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

— Walter Lippmann

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

— William Blake

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.

— Mike Leigh

“Art is not sin. It’s not always good. But it is not a sin.”

— Ann Patchett

I'd be more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I worked with.

— Shannen Doherty

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was…

— James De La Vega

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

— Anonymous

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

— Ridley Scott

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social,…

— Jill Soloway

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

— Gautama Buddha

There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.

— Lauren Jauregui

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

“The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if…

— Rachel Field

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the…

— Julia Cameron

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often…

— Hokusai

For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias,…

— Theo van Doesburg

“Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They’ve got nothing to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on…

— Paul Brunton

If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are…

— Katherine Paterson

I think a good painting or a good work of art does many things it wants, I mean, maybe 15 or 20…

— David Salle

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

— Mark Roberts

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

— Lana Del Rey

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.

— Celine Dion

I am a professional martial artist, and I am a professional fighter.

— Frank Shamrock

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.

— Francesco Clemente

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

— Pablo Picasso

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

— Anne Rice

You are not truly a Warhol superstar unless you are dead.

— Jackie Curtis

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

— James Anthony Froude

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

— Pierre Bonnard

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

— Bruce Lee

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

— Seneca the Younger

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

— Whitney Chadwick

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

— Marilyn Manson

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

— Bertrand Russell

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

— Kenneth Noland