Artist Quotes · Page 451

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

— Lucian Freud

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

— Josiah Wedgwood

Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being…

— Jim Shaw

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by…

— Andy Goldsworthy

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

— Arsene Wenger

“Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.”

— Ayn Rand

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

— Kate Bush

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality…

— Simone Weil

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you…

— John Fowles

The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure,…

— Camille Paglia

To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the…

— Henry James

I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in…

— Stephen Beal

I don't like it when bands don't want to play that one song everybody wants to hear. I think that's cheating everybody,…

— David Bryan

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what…

— Al Jourgensen

I felt in college I wanted tattoos. I'm really glad I didn't. I was broke. I would've been bargain shopping for a…

— T.J. Dillashaw

If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops.

— Cornelia Parker

I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.

— Gavin Creel

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

— Jeffrey Lewis

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not…

— Arne Glimcher

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

— Evelyn Underhill

I had earlier done a few paintings on Durga because I am fascinated by her.

— Sushmita Sen

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

— Benjamin Walker

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

— Giorgetto Giugiaro

“Paint yourself with the colors of your love. Hang your paintings on the walls of your desires.”

— Debasish Mridha

I'm trying to find ways to transform parts of the art world into something more productive or more satisfying.

— Hito Steyerl

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

— Julian Green

“Libby stood at the bar like something that had been hastily added at the end of a painting that hasn't quite dried…

— Scarlett Thomas

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

— Bob Mould

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

— Jackson Pollock

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

— Wendy Carlos

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

— George Benson

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

— Robert Henri

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

— Oscar Wilde

For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be…

— Trevor Paglen

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

— Hokusai

I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

— Anonymous

You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is…

— Ludovico Einaudi