Artist Quotes · Page 379

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

— Wayne Thiebaud

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

— Richard B. Garnett

I think 'Hamilton' has made me look at myself deeper as an artist and what I'm looking for as an artist.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

— Pablo Picasso

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

— Harold Rosenberg

“In an art museum, you shall realise how banal and how ordinary the life outside!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of…

— Oscar Wilde

I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love…

— John Lennon

I think that I came of age in the 1970s with my own work, and it was a time of conceptual and…

— Laurie Simmons

“After all, our main business in art, as in life, is to strive. Honest effort meets with its own reward, even where…

— Aubertine Woodward Moore

Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let…

— Adrienne Rich

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing…

— Steven Wright

I never went into aesthetics. Aesthetics is what philosophers have to say about art, and a lot of them take an analytics…

— Don Ihde

I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records…

— Rico Love

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,…

— George Stillman Hillard

A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the…

— Ellsworth Kelly

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

— Gene Roddenberry

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into…

— Mervyn Levy

“Art that puts itself in dependence on orthodoxy,even under the most progressive doctrine,is doomed to failure.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out…

— Zayn Malik

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

— James Whistler

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

— David R. Brower

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

— Yoko Ono

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

— Steven Pressfield

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

— Ariel Pink

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

— Wayne Thiebaud

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

— Maria Semple

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

That's the thing about being an artist: you never should settle, really.

— Ross Lynch

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

— Scott Kahn

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

— Rabindranath Tagore

“People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams.”

— Salomon Grimberg

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

— Donald Judd