Artist Quotes · Page 349

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 have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

— John Ruskin

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

— Francis Bacon

“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

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

— Morgan Parker

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

— Richard Artschwager

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

— Gustave Flaubert

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is…

— Etgar Keret

A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the…

— Stephen Shore

I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create…

— Arnold Friberg

The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with…

— Jon Landau

Im not the type of artist thats like, Lets go out and party and dance your life away! I think those artists…

— Claudia Lee

Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues,…

— Jonathan Lethem

I've learned a lot about the limits of what I can do, as an artist, or what I'm willing to do. It's…

— Tatiana Maslany

Desire is something very egoistic. If you desire something, you also have to take the consequences of that. You have to study…

— Odd Nerdrum

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

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

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

“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

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— George Ezra

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

— Gustave Courbet

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

— Patti Smith

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

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

— Tiko Kerr

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

“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

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

— Werner Bischof

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

— Leo Steinberg

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

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

— Hartley Coleridge

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

— Clive James