Artist Quotes · Page 330

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

— Arne Glimcher

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

— Cy Twombly

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet…

— Edmund Burke

“Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas.”

— Albert Camus

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

— Luc Ferrari

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

— David Hockney

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

— Julia Cameron

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

— Yves Saint Laurent

The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way,…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in…

— Henry James

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and…

— Robert Henri

“What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers…

— Wes Jackson

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,…

— Charles Baudelaire

Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house,…

— Angelina Jolie

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records…

— Charles Sheeler

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are…

— Flannery O'Connor

There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music…

— D'wayne Wiggins

“I don't want to be here when my latest work of accidental art is discovered.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want…

— Ezra Furman

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

— Arthur Smith

I didn't expect my popularity to be a mainstream thing, 'cause I'd only ever been an underground artist.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a…

— Loretta Lux

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

— Lisa Yuskavage

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

— PJ Harvey

“The most precious etchings of caring can be traced not in the scope of its message, but in the integrity of its…

— Johnathan Jena

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when…

— John Singer Sargent

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

— Robert Bateman

As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.

— Sergei Polunin

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and…

— Michael Craig-Martin

The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back...

— Phil Ochs

For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to…

— Kevin Macdonald

One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a…

— Audra McDonald

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

— Chuck Palahniuk

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.

— Wassily Kandinsky

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

— Karl Kraus

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her,…

— Samuel Morse

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in…

— Oscar Wilde