Artist Quotes · Page 149

The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.

— Thomas Eakins

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

— David Hockney

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

— Oscar Wilde

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

— Jean Toomer

Dancers are both athletes and artists.

— Margot Fonteyn

“If there is no feeling, there cannot be great art.”

— Ray Bradbury

All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.

— Alexander Liberman

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

— Camille Pissarro

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose…

— Jarvis Cocker

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

— Grimes

I went to school for economics, and especially in Asian culture it's not really a viable job for my family to be…

— Jimmy O. Yang

Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he…

— Pharrell Williams

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

— E. F. Schumacher

I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb!

— MC Lars

It is through¦ Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

— Oscar Wilde

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening…

— William Barrett

Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology…

— Robin G. Collingwood

There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize…

— William Morris Hunt

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art,…

— Alistair Cooke

It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say,…

— Hans Richter

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should…

— Maya Lin

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or…

— Pauly Shore

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

— Al Hirschfeld

I painted myself out of my painting.

— Milton Resnick

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

— Anonymous

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

— Albert Einstein

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

— Yoko Ono

“[Like they say,] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.”

— Dave Courtney

“Emotions of every color create the rich work of art that is life.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

— Milan Kundera

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

— Genesis P-Orridge

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

— William Morris Hunt

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”

— Theodore Dreiser

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

— Pope Pius IX

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

— Yayoi Kusama

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul

— Eleanora Duse

“The master painter makes art with any brush.”

— Takeshi Konomi