Artist Quotes · Page 391

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

— Alexander Calder

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

— Masaaki Hatsumi

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

— Lukas Foss

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

— Oscar Wilde

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

— Pierre de Ronsard

“I wanted to paint a picture, in indelible print, across the canvass of my heart.”

— Suman Pokhrel

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

— Ralph Steadman

I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really…

— Tavi Gevinson

Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,…

— Deborah Smith

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the…

— Bridget Riley

I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a…

— Anonymous

If you're an artist, create music and put it out on the Internet. If you do this consistently, your fan base will…

— Russ

I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new…

— Joe Madureira

I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important…

— Jim Gaffigan

“But I think it will bring you something besides this, something that is the knowledge of real strength in art: not that…

— Oscar Wilde

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

— Marcel Duchamp

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

— Patricia Briggs

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

— Paul Smith

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

— Mary Heilmann

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

— Annaleigh Ashford

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

— Solomon R. Guggenheim

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

— Walter Isaacson

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

— Anonymous

Life's a canvas you're an artist, Paint a picture of a garden then go and marvel at the harvest you created from…

— Anonymous

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

— Paul Mellon

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

— Elia Kazan

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

— Burton Raffel

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

— Oscar Wilde

Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.

— William Thorsell

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

— Leo Steinberg

The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or…

— Gerald Moor

“An individual artist needs only a thousand true fans in her tribe. It's enough.”

— Seth Godin

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

— Jack Kirby

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

— Joe Bradley

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

— Barbra Streisand

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

— Bridget Riley

When I was a kid, trying not to color outside of the lines was my biggest problem.

— Ritu Ghatourey