Artist Quotes · Page 220

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

— Edouard Manet

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

— Robert Hughes

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

— Gerhard Richter

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

— Pharrell Williams

The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw.

— Igor Babailov

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

— Gutzon Borglum

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

— John Donne

A painter is a choreographer of space.

— Barnett Newman

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

— Anonymous

“To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.

— LeRoy Neiman

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

— Miuccia Prada

I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into…

— Fred Tomaselli

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone…

— Ben Shahn

All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil.

— Peter Greenaway

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real…

— Beau Willimon

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be…

— Anna Katharine Green

“Revealing aspects of the mystery of being human is life's inexhaustible research. Through the adventures of art, we find the meaning of…

— Ashley Bryan

“Every time I messed up, I was tempted to start over. But starting over wouldn’t have erased the mistakes I made. So…

— Shireen Ayache

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable…

— Mac Miller

I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say…

— Steve Carell

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty… Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting…

— Aldous Huxley

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

— Joseph Beuys

I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

— Helen Van Wyk

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

— Pierre Bonnard

No art comes from the conscious mind.

— Steve Martin

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

— Paul Bourget

“Paint a good picture if you want to see a good image.”

— Evans Biya

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

— Alicia Keys

The best artists know what to leave out.

— Charles de Lint

Anything can be painted without representation.

— Agnes Martin

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

— Kimon Nicolaides

This is another pic that I drawn in art

— Liza

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

— Steven Wright

I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really

— Will Ferrell

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

— Anonymous

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

— Grimes

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

— Robert Rauschenberg