Artist Quotes · Page 426

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

— Salvador Dali

“An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it.”

— Christopher Moore

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

— Gerald Scarfe

My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada…

— Kurt Schwitters

I often find that people want to paint themselves one colour - like, 'I'm the baddie' - and they've always got this…

— Toby Kebbell

Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters?

— Henri Matisse

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post…

— Deborah Kass

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying…

— Bob Mould

Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line:…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

We've all been there - you find something moving, you commission a painting. I know one wall of my living room is…

— Nish Kumar

I hate it when people say that art shouldnt be a commodity. A lot of the rooms in museums, and all the…

— Grayson Perry

The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he…

— Dawn Powell

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place.…

— Ad Reinhardt

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for…

— Nick Bantock

“Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.”

— Nuno Roque

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

— Robert Breault

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

— Iris Murdoch

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

— Samuel Barnett

The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.

— Robert Indiana

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

— Lord Acton

I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

— Jonathan Lethem

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

— Roger Scruton

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

— Walter J. Phillips

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to…

— Eric Drooker

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

— John French Sloan

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people…

— Robert Henri

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that…

— Jim Carrey

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

— Edgar Degas

Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.

— Dana Loesch

We realised that art, theatre, and music in Sarajevo were resistance at the deepest level.

— Haris Pasovic

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

— Auguste Rodin

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

— Douglas Sirk

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir