Artist Quotes · Page 372

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

— John F. Kennedy

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

— Mark Akenside

I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing.

— Virgil Abloh

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

— Henri Matisse

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

— Joshua Reynolds

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.

— Malcolm Mclaren

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

— Iris Murdoch

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

— F. Gary Gray

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats…

— Jane Campion

I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the…

— Jack White

Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like…

— Ben Schnetzer

“I am the contrast. I am forever the crack in the window that lets the winter in. I am forever the moment…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which…

— George Steiner

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a…

— Cory Arcangel

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When…

— Paul Klee

I'm grateful for the time, energy, creativity and effort each artist has brought to the project to further the mission of The…

— Topaz Page-Green

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

— Max Liebermann

The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it…

— Lynda Resnick

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

— Talib Kweli

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

— Pierre Soulages

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

— Ludwig von Mises

Picasso.” He whispers like a priest. “Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would…

— Vincent van Gogh

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

— Salvador Dali

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

— Kazimir Malevich

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

— Eugene Delacroix

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

— Lauren Jauregui

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

I think it's really important for real artists to make sure they're honest.

— Pixie Lott

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

— Howard Pyle

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my…

— Mark Kostabi

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

— Anonymous

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians…

— John Olsen

I do a lot of work that's permanent. The drawings, the sculptures, they're permanent.

— Christo

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

— Baker Brownell

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

— Neil Simon

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

— Amos Lee

I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

— Dale Chihuly