Artist Quotes · Page 216

Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.

— Peter Marino

The artist must be ecstatic about something.

— Ted Shawn

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.

— E. B. Lewis

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

— Brice Marden

In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

— George Santayana

“Art is not a mobocracy. It’s a republic.”

— Richard Powers

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

— Amos Lee

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

— Neil Simon

I do a lot of work that's permanent. The drawings, the sculptures, they're permanent.

— Christo

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians…

— John Olsen

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

— Baker Brownell

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

— Larry Wall

I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

— Dale Chihuly

“I escaped into daydreams as I did my piecework. I longed to enter the fraternity of the artist: the hunger, their manner…

— Patti Smith

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny,…

— Russell Sherman

Teachers have been heroes to me, as well as artists and writers, and I'm honored to be among their ranks. There is…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These…

— Robert Henri

A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that…

— Tennessee Williams

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing…

— William Morris Hunt

I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

— Ridley Scott

Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash.

— Richard Roeper

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

— Joyce Cary

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

— Haruki Murakami

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

— Michael Ventura

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

— Steve Sabol

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

— Bruce Lee

“Anywhere art visits turns into a gorgeous place!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.

— Jules Breton

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

— Henri Matisse

There is no perfect painting and there is no perfect solution.

— Elliott Hundley

Great art picks up where nature ends.

— Marc Chagall

We have art in order not to die of life.

— Albert Camus

I want to become the best artist I can be.

— Michaela DePrince

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

— Edward Hopper

“The greatest artist and web-designer ever is indeed a spider!”

— Munia Khan