Artist Quotes · Page 135

For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting.

— Robert Smithson

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Never underestimate the power of a fresh coat of white paint.

— Jeremiah Brent

“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”

— Constantin Stanislavski

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

— Yann Martel

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

— Jean Helion

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

— Rumi

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

— Mac Miller

I think the more you know people and the more you get to know artists, the better you can collaborate.

— Ludwig Goransson

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

— Ellsworth Kelly

To be a gifted artist, you have to be able to interpret in a certain way.

— Mirella Freni

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it…

— Dante Alighieri

“Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?”

— Sara Baume

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

— Cass McCombs

“Everything here is a small offense and not of value as art or confession. It is not a whim. It is an…

— Patti Smith

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something…

— Stanley Kubrick

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature…

— Margaret Fuller

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice…

— Tony Iommi

“After a time some of the hedge knights and men-at-arms amongst his rabble began to paint images of the “Cock o’ the…

— George R.R. Martin

[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost…

— Kehinde Wiley

“I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add…

— Patti Smith

As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and…

— Neil Jackson

If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to…

— Henri Matisse

Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I believe in artists. I'm an advocate for artists.

— Angela Robinson

“Create art. Not just an art, but thermo fucking nuclear art.”

— Randy Gage

Indian artists are working with a history that's overwhelming and rich.

— David Linley

“This life is your canvas; what will you make it?”

— Jayce O'Neal

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

— Eric Maisel

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

— Lucian Freud

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

— Edward Hopper

“Criticise privately but compliment publicly.”

— Amit Kalantri

There are a lot of young artists that are dope.

— Keith Sweat

All any artist can do is please themselves.

— William Shatner

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

— Roman Polanski

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

— Marc Chagall

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

— H. E. Bates

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.

— Mati Klarwein

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

— Stephen Vincent Benet