Artist Quotes · Page 306

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

— Bette Davis

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

— Auguste Rodin

the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

— Edgar Degas

I think there's no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you…

— David Draiman

“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

— Edward Albee

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

— Neil Welliver

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

— Bruno Mars

This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he…

— Michael Chekhov

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists.…

— Edward Ruscha

“It would distort markets. Besides, if I bought a load of gold when I thought the price was going up, then it…

— Mark Speed

Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable…

— Allan Kaprow

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is…

— Oscar Wilde

Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any…

— Anne Truitt

When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions,…

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional…

— Andre Malraux

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my…

— Bil Keane

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or…

— Erica Jong

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

— Theodore Robinson

I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and…

— Stella Vine

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

— Stockard Channing

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

— Carl Andre

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

— Tracey Emin

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

— Anonymous

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where…

— Romare Bearden

I know how to lead a room, but I also know how to take direction and be a contributor as an artist.

— Colman Domingo

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher…

— Beth Hart

“To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint. ”

— Leon Cooper

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

— Wendell Pierce

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the…

— Akira Toriyama

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

— Janet Fitch

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

— Michel de Montaigne

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

— Eudora Welty

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.

— Pierre Schaeffer

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

— Meher Baba

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

— James Surowiecki

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

— Paul Klee

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.

— Zack Snyder

That's what you want to do as an actor and as an artist: move an audience.

— Michael McElhatton