Artist Quotes · Page 154

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

— Glenn Close

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

— Marc Chagall

Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.

— Frank Gehry

I feel the first award any artist can have is his audience.

— Romeo Santos

It's hard to make a living as an artist, period.

— Sahara Davenport

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

— Marilyn Monroe

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

— John Glover

Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it.

— No I.D

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve…

— Beverly Pepper

An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.

— Eric Maisel

I always keep doing things that I want to do... As an artist you need to keep growing.

— Neha Bhasin

Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

— Anonymous

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

— Robert Motherwell

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out…

— Horace Walpole

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject…

— Tom Wesselmann

If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking…

— Brian Michael Bendis

Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each…

— Emily Carr

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though…

— Eva Hoffman

The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality…

— Scott Kahn

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always…

— Joe Bradley

I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art…

— William H. Hunt

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right…

— Matthew Lillard

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

— Conway Twitty

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

— Joseph Pisani

I think there is a real art to walkabouts.

— Kate Middleton

The industry is a menace to artists.

— Nikki Sixx

Matisse renovates rather than innovates.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

“People looking at art but missing the beauty in people.”

— Reuben Berger

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

— John Piper

Art has to be reflective of our society.

— David Zayas

The artist must know how far to go too far.

— Jean Cocteau

“A work of art is like living people.”

— Muriel Spark

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

— Brian Eno

I'm not an industry artist - I'm an artist in the industry.

— DMX

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

— David Bailey

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

— Guido Molinari

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

— Stephane Mallarme

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch