Artist Quotes · Page 158

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.

— Titian

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

— Yayoi Kusama

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

— Ross Lynch

“The art is in the idea, not the object.”

— Anonymous

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

— Bob Ross

Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

— Jacob Epstein

I paint or sketch for two, three hours every day. It keeps me sane.

— Vic Reeves

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible.

— Catherine Camus

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see…

— Edward Ruscha

The guest artists pass on not only their experiences but also the pitfalls.

— Ann Reinking

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

— Oscar Wilde

The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso.

— Michael Portillo

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped…

— Claes Oldenburg

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in…

— Rachel Cusk

For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted…

— Kehinde Wiley

I think that music is stale because of it. I think that we have the same artists from day to day. It's…

— Willa Ford

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed.…

— Susan Griffin

I worked selling tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every job under the sun. It's the part that sucks…

— Jeremy Luke

I definitely believe that the power of the artist is in the artist's hands now. We're kind of in the wild, wild…

— Rhymefest

“Objectionable, tedious, irritating labour, - this is the condition of genius, which no doubt explains the reason why men so rarely achieve…

— Lev Shestov

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality,…

— Lucian Freud

Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you…

— Cy Twombly

“The worst thing an artist can have is too much freedom.”

— Magdalena McGuire

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

— Anonymous

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

— Denis Diderot

The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.

— George Saunders

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

— Julia Cameron

Challenging is a master arts of arts

— Anonymous

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Being an artist is celebrating life.

— Henry Moore

The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.

— Marilyn Ferguson

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

— Iris Murdoch

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

— Ai Weiwei

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

— Julia Cameron

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

— Patti Smith

All art worthy of the name is religious.

— Henri Matisse

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun