Artist Quotes · Page 269

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

— Leo Steinberg

I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.

— Werner Bischof

Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

— Raphael Soyer

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

— Joan Miro

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

— Charley Pride

I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

— Claudia Lee

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

— Hartley Coleridge

Like in the paintings, there has to be moments that are completely right to be able to feel how wrong it is…

— Francesca DiMattio

...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off…

— Thomas Hardy

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings.…

— Matt Gonzalez

I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with…

— Jeff Dunham

What I really wanted wasn't what I thought I was supposed to want. It wasn't what people had told me I should…

— Sara Benincasa

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract…

— Derek R. Audette

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older…

— Sean Parker

“And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.”

— Clive James

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

— Alexej von Jawlensky

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

— Pablo Picasso

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of…

— Elbert Hubbard

One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him.

— Alun Hoddinott

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

— Jacob Epstein

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

— Jeff Koons

Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

— Rumaan Alam

Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

— Tom Six

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of…

— William Blake

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

— Gerhard Richter

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

— Charlie Haden

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

— Ad Reinhardt

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

— Gene Black

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

— Jerry Harrison

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit…

— Louis Riel

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

— Arthur Wesley Dow

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

— Nate Lowman

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

— Warren MacKenzie

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

— Virgil Abloh

They say life is like art and the world is your canvas, whether your picture be good or bad it will always…

— Anonymous