Artist Quotes · Page 393

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Morgan Parker

“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

“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

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

— Richard Artschwager

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

— Rudolf Nureyev

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

— Oscar Wilde

“The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice…

— Joanna Russ

Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another…

— Nelson Shanks

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not…

— Kesh

Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt,…

— Charlotte Cotton

For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had…

— Paul Auster

“It's like art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he can paint the right way, before he goes putting…

— Neal Shusterman

I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.

— Dizzee Rascal

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

— Val Kilmer

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

— Dave Barry

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

— David Hockney

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

— Nicolas Berggruen

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your…

— N. K. Jemisin

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I…

— Arshile Gorky

“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining,…

— Willa Cather

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

— Eric Fischl

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

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind...

— Leon Battista Alberti

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

— Robert Genn

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your…

— Jill Eikenberry

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's…

— Brynn Cartelli

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

— John Walford

From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist.

— Steve Miller

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and…

— Diego Rivera

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone…

— Bill Griffith

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

— Sylvester Stallone

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

— Chuck Jones

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my…

— Danny Gregory