Artist Quotes · Page 170

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

— Anonymous

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

— Gustave Flaubert

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

— Philip Larkin

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

— Thomas Merton

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

— Rachel Zucker

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.

— JR

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

— Susan Sontag

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

— Pierre Soulages

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

— Neil Farber

I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.

— Sharon Stone

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

— John Currin

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

— Marcel Duchamp

“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.”

— Oscar Wilde

I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She…

— Zola Jesus

In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he…

— Hortense Powdermaker

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to…

— Eric Kandel

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last…

— Maria Jeritza

Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from…

— J. Cole

I thoroughly enjoyed working with him. He's truly a fantastic actor and is extremely dedicated. I feel I have grown better as…

— Catherine Tresa

I am not from the political or banking elite. I am a child of the middle class far from Paris. And if…

— Emmanuel Macron

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

— Robert Burns

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

— John Dyer

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

— John Kricfalusi

I've been painting since I was a kid.

— Dan Amboyer

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

— Peter Doig

I love working with artists who know exactly what they want.

— Charlotte Caffey

We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.

— Eileen Gray

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

— Ad Reinhardt

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

— Steve Jobs

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

— Amit Kalantri

A picture I drew of my girl friend from our first date.

— Matthew CAmpbell

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

— Barbara Smith

Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.

— Jack White

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

— Fra Angelico

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

— Oscar Wilde

I'd rather produce art than become art.

— Steven Morrissey