Artist Quotes · Page 182

“Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.”

— Norman Mailer

The man, the art, the work--it is all one.

— Eugen Herrigel

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

— Walter Kirn

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

— Brian Eno

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

— Edward Albee

Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension... additive/subtractive.

— Kay WalkingStick

The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

— Michelangelo

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

— Willem de Kooning

“No wonder Van Gogh cut his ear off, I thought; there’s nothing else to do in a place like this but cut…

— Philip Kerr

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need…

— Julia Cameron

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

— Barbara Goldsmith

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

— Criss Jami

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

— Harry Callahan

“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.”

— Dan Simmons

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

— Hisham Matar

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very…

— Albert Schweitzer

“On the chalkboard was another horrible but familiar sight. Someone had dipped his or her hand into a can of paint and…

— Michael Buckley

A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste,…

— Evelyn Waugh

I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

“Just as that puzzled savage who has picked up - a strange cast-up from the ocean? - something unearthed from the sands?…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not…

— Neil Denari

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working…

— Steven Pressfield

A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke…

— Patricia Lee Gauch

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

— Stephanie Perkins

I went to art school when I was little.

— Amanda Seyfried

I'm one of the strongest advocates for the arts you'll ever find!

— Mike Huckabee

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

— Louise Bourgeois

I could never really see myself being a pop artist.

— Lari White

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

— Salvador Dali

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

— Mary Ruefle

“A masterpiece is never created in a hurry.”

— Joyce Meyer

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

— Todd Haynes

Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.

— Hallie Flanagan

A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

— Al Yankovic

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

— Mitchell Baker

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

— Jean Rostand

My personality is more the personality of a painter.

— Santiago Calatrava

“Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson