Artist Quotes · Page 196

The value of art is in the observer.

— Agnes Martin

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

— Mason Cooley

It's the strong will of an artist that really inspires me.

— Christine and the Queens

The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist.

— Lynn Nottage

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

— Herbert Read

Call me an artist because I draw attention

— Frenchqueen

You think you're an artist; prove it

— Laurence Olivier

For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces.

— Yusaku Maezawa

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

— Artie Shaw

I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.

— Rhys Ifans

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

— Stephen Gardiner

Art is coming face to face with yourself. That's what's wrong with Benton. He came face to face with Michelangelo-- and he…

— Jackson Pollock

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

— Bill Griffith

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

— Kate Nash

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own…

— Mia Wasikowska

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

— Louise Wilder

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises…

— Oscar Wilde

“In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about…

— Michael Jackson

“what was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining,…

— Willa Cather

“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and…

— Michele Zackheim

I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my…

— Neon Hitch

Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make…

— Ramona Koval

“Almost exactly five hundred years ago, a tormented soul named Michelangelo built a very narrow bridge in the middle of the air…

— Benjamin Blech

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

— PJ Harvey

There is no such thing as #1 in art.

— Mike Birbiglia

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

— John Marin

Without art we are but monkeys with car keys.

— Anonymous

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

— Jeffrey Archer

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

— Peter Greenaway

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

— Timothy Zahn

“...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...”

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

— Madonna Ciccone

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

— Duane Michals

I studied realism when I was in art school.

— Peter Max

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

— Theodor Mommsen

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work

— Tara Donovan