Artist Quotes · Page 291

When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

— Natasha Leggero

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind...

— Leon Battista Alberti

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

— Francis Bacon

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

— Morgan Parker

“Rhetoric makes use of nature’s secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their most beautiful work is…

— Giacomo Casanova

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

— Gustave Flaubert

“With the holy touch of art, human life has become less lonely and more esthetical!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting…

— Richard Artschwager

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the…

— Jacques-Louis David

With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier…

— Marcel Marceau

Should I be collaborating with artists of color solely because of their race and my politics? This question is weighted with my…

— Vivek Shraya

The expectations of the viewer are what you're asking about. And the expectations of the viewer are manifold. However, they are very…

— Kehinde Wiley

I saw an early cut of 'The Disaster Artist,' and I thought it was inspiring in a lot of ways, and it…

— Greg Sestero

My best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends. It's fun…

— Luke Bryan

“Here, however, you made art because it was the only thing you've ever been good at, the only thing, really, you thought…

— Hanya Yanagihara

An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he…

— Romare Bearden

On the 'Blacks & Browns' record, it's me and Sad Boy. He's a Hispanic artist, and we're talking about what we got…

— YG

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see…

— Tommy Lee

“Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.”

— Andrew Levy

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

— Josef Albers

The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.

— George Ezra

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

— Patti Smith

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to…

— Gustave Courbet

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

— Joseph Campbell

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

— A. Y. Jackson

“Art was Picasso’s heart. And it kept on beating for him from his birth to his death.”

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.

— Tiko Kerr

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

“Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal; the shock of beauty is when the irresistible force hits the immovable post.”

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— Alexej von Jawlensky

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

— Hartley Coleridge