Artist Quotes · Page 215

“In art, don't you see, there is no first person.”

— Oscar Wilde

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

— Randall Jarrell

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

— Albert Camus

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

— Denis Dutton

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

— Josip Novakovich

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators…

— Igor Stravinsky

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

— Charles Bukowski

Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture

— Jim Rohn

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

— Eugene Delacroix

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

— Howard Pyle

I think it's really important for real artists to make sure they're honest.

— Pixie Lott

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

— Lauren Jauregui

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my…

— Mark Kostabi

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

— Anonymous

“Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities…

— Azar Nafisi

The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more…

— Edward Weston

If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for…

— Matt Corby

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some…

— Karen O

“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no…

— Henry de Vere Stacpoole

“As an artist, my talents are not mine alone to just keep. My creations have to touch lives, spread love and let…

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the…

— Nikki Reed

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

— Marion Cotillard

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

— Julian Schnabel

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

— Margaret Cho

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

— Voltaire

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

— Hans Haacke

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

— Marge Piercy

I don't think art is bound by language or country.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

So must the artist do in working at the nude.

— Antonio Canova

I don't think an artist does well without limitations.

— Hillman Curtis

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints...

— Joni Mitchell

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

— Joseph Campbell

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

— Keith Haring

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

— Amanda Seyfried

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

— Willa Cather

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

— Tim Burton

No great work of art is ever finished.

— Michelangelo