Artist Quotes · Page 193

“W.H. Auden: “Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.”

— Anonymous

All good art is abstract in its structure.

— Paul Strand

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

— John Ruskin

The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

— Thomas Aikens

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

— Ashley Montagu

“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination.”

— Seth

I think of myself as a healing artist.

— Lynn Nottage

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

— Marion Milner

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

— Uta Hagen

I'm someone who admires artists like Madonna and David Bowie, who really change their sound drastically between each record.

— Charli XCX

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

— Jeff Koons

I often see only my mistakes. I always feel I could have done better. Every artist goes through it.

— Fahadh Faasil

My big thing is that nobody is involved in my artistic creations and not putting their hands and their ideas into that.

— Justin Nozuka

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is,…

— H. L. Mencken

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

— Carl Jung

The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

— Andrew Wyeth

Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of…

— Adamo Macri

I went to theater school in Toronto for four years and grew up around actors, and things like headshots could cost you…

— Mena Massoud

“You seem to be turning into the theme of all my paint­ings”, she said. “The meeting of two worlds. A double exposure.…

— Milan Kundera

Every time I have people over, I watch how long they look at every part of the painting, or pictures on my…

— Damian Loeb

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

As an artist, let the creativity be the priority as often as you can, even though we all understand that there are…

— Yukimi Nagano

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to…

— Wiz Khalifa

I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at…

— Graeme Base

Part of my job has always been to respect the privacy of the artists.

— Glyn Johns

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

— Pete Townshend

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

— Eugene Delacroix

An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.

— Geoffrey Wolff

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

— David Hockney

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

— Henry Miller

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

— Edward Dahlberg

I'm an artist. I've been doing storyboards for a long, long time.

— Andy Muschietti

“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”

— William Saroyan

I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me.

— Alan Taylor

I'd need an incredibly talented make up artist to make me look natural!

— Donatella Versace

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

— Larry Clark

We artists allow others to see through our windows.

— Robert Genn

“Art is the overflow of emotion into action.”

— Brian Raif

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

— Eric Church

“Thoughts frame your portrait, action paints it.”

— Charles F. Glassman