Artist Quotes · Page 222

True art is very apt to break rules without violation of regulations.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

I always start a painting with the sky.

— Alfred Sisley

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

— Joni Mitchell

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

— John Ruskin

One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person.

— Kerry James Marshall

Painting is but another word for feeling.

— John Constable

My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.

— Eva Hesse

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

— Elliot W. Eisner

As an artiste, as a person who has a voice, I feel strongly about not creating anything empty.

— Arjun Mathur

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint:…

— Jackson Pollock

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

— Ken Danby

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware…

— Rollo May

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

— Nathan Oliveira

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

— Meryl Streep

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

— Saint Augustine

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

— Thomas Kinkade

Most artists are making as much money now as they could have made... in the heyday of Def Jam [when the] Beastie…

— Russell Simmons

To be an artist and to be recognized by another artist who is, you know, just something you can't even put into…

— Misty Copeland

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach…

— Oscar Wilde

“Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree…

— Joyce Cary

Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent…

— David Galenson

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the…

— Jerry Saltz

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or…

— Roger Scruton

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

— T Bone Burnett

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

— Edgar Degas

“It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.”

— James Joyce

I'm a West Coast ratchet L.A. artist.

— Blueface

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

— Salvador de Madariaga

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

— Adriana Trigiani

I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.

— F. Murray Abraham

“ART (in a business marketing context) Authority Relevant Timely”

— Richie Norton

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself

— Robert Mapplethorpe

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

— Angie Stone

“I paint as a means to make life bearable.”

— Van Goh

I would like to be an artist who works in a very closed ambience.

— Santiago Calatrava

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Moralists have no place in an art gallery.

— Han Suyin

One of my favorite artists on Deviantart.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson