Artist Quotes · Page 174

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

— Ludwig Bemelmans

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

— Christopher Alexander

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

— Martin Puryear

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.

— Mark Tobey

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

— Christopher Bram

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

— Robert Henri

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

— Caspar David Friedrich

All art critics are useless or harmful.

— Umberto Boccioni

Fans are half of an artiste... without someone to appreciate him, an artiste is nothing.

— Fawad Khan

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would…

— Romola Garai

Obviously there's so many great artists out there that I'd love to work with.

— MO

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

— Ice Cube

I feel that art deals with issues way before any political organisation.

— Daniela Vega

I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and…

— K. Flay

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

— Damien Hirst

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

— Steve McQueen

Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use…

— David Bowie

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man…

— Aleksandra Mir

“I'll enter some faculty or other, get a degree in a sunject that doesn't interest me but that will help me earn…

— Paulo Coelho

It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of…

— Leonard Cohen

If we see someone, an artist who just does magnificent art, and especially if they're already doing Ghost-related art, we just reach…

— Tobias Forge

It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“We place too much of ourselves inside art - so we become part of it and never feel quiet again for the…

— Laura Chouette

“Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must…

— Janet Malcolm

An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

— Eric Maisel

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

— Willem de Kooning

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

— Klaus Kinski

“Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

No one gives you a manual as to how to be an artist.

— Griff

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

— Isadora Duncan

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

— Gore Vidal

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

— Pat Oliphant

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

— Alan Patricof

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

— Leo Tolstoy

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

— Anne Stevenson

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

The new artists with gimmicks have the most problems staying out here.

— Sisqo