Artist Quotes · Page 223

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art. ”

— E.M. Forster

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

— Barnett Newman

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

— Joseph Campbell

Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.

— Gerhard Richter

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

— Peter Doig

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

— Steven Pinker

Neymar is my key player. One of the world's best. He is also an artist.

— Thomas Tuchel

Art cannot save anybody from anything.

— Gilbert Sorrentino

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

— Ernst Haas

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

— Marcel Duchamp

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a…

— Julian Schnabel

“The art is nothing without the gift. But the gift is nothing without work.”

— Oscar Wilde

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

— Anonymous

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

— Nell Blaine

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

— Gish Jen

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

— Terence McKenna

“point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view…

— Oscar Wilde

I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the…

— Keith Haring

I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist.…

— Richie Havens

“How can U say one style is better than another. You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week,…

— Legs McNeil

Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to…

— Rajkumar Hirani

'Saw' has been a unique experience in that I've had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has…

— Tobin Bell

When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art,…

— Kyp Malone

For artists to feel a real emotion to your partner is very important.

— Sergei Polunin

The art of love is who you share it with.

— Neil Diamond

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

— Pauline Kael

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

— Robert Hughes

What was that? An exhibition? You need emotional content...

— Huey Freeman

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

— Paddy Chayefsky

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

— Jacques Lipchitz

Blank paper always symbolizes the anxiety of the painter.

— Claude Picasso

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

— Jackson Pollock

Sometimes I don't think that I'm the most relatable female artist.

— Tones and I

I remember when I was a kid, I went on the computer just to use Paint.

— Anonymous

Globalization is the next big artworld idea

— Noel Carroll

I never, ever wanted to be a solo artist.

— Sisqo

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

— Kurt Cobain

I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.

— Kehinde Wiley