Artist Quotes · Page 202

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

— Brooks Atkinson

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

— Alain de Botton

“Draftsmen may be made, but colorists are born.”

— Eugène Delacroix

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

— Dziga Vertov

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

— Robert Motherwell

“A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.”

— Ezra Pound

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

— John Updike

“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other.”

— Pat Conroy

I've learned you can't take any steps to protect any art. It is so vulnerable.

— Kate Bush

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

— Stephen King

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

— Julian Beever

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an…

— Meghan Trainor

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

— Christian Scriver

“I should say a student does well to remain one as long as he can. It seems to me very doubtful that…

— Truman Capote

I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for…

— Ezra Miller

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I…

— Henry Rollins

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going…

— Robert Adams

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to…

— Harold Prince

“There's no such thing as great art or poor art. Art is subjective expression. As such, it can be judged only as…

— Ron Brackin

I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting…

— Claude Monet

Often I combine many sources to create one painting, so it is not usually one particular experience or moment that leads to…

— Rosson Crow

But of works of art little can be said.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Art is the passion born from a souls divine connection to God”

— La Shea M Johnson

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.

— Paul Klee

This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.

— Hany Abu-Assad

The arts are a major life nourishment.

— Kiran Ahluwalia

“Plutarch slides the sketchbook across to me.”

— Suzanne Collins

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

In the art world, Monet means money.

— Fiona Bruce

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

— Roger Ebert

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

— Gary Lucas

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

— Cameron Sinclair

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

— Saul Bellow

The arts are the signature of a nation.

— Joan Mondale

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

— Quincy Jones

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

— Eugenio Montale

There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

— Mark Hamill