Artist Quotes · Page 56

It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

— Margaret of Valois

I'd become the little surfer in my childhood drawings.

— Garrett McNamara

Consuming art should involve investment and risk.

— Romesh Ranganathan

Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.

— Hilda Doolittle

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture…

— Paul Cezanne

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

— D. H. Lawrence

The sheer number of paintings of unconscious women is distressing.

— Hannah Gadsby

It's dangerous to be an artist and never change in a constantly changing world. The trick is to adapt without losing yourself.

— Anonymous

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

— Winslow Homer

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent,…

— Georges Rodenbach

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

— William Hazlitt

We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

— Alan Sparhawk

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

— Damian Loeb

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

— Theophile Gautier

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

— Peter D. Kramer

Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create…

— Juliette Lewis

It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several…

— Dick Clark

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it…

— Samuel Johnson

I had seen "Force Majeure" and I just love that movie so much. And I really wanted to artistically give a little…

— Jill Soloway

I never knew what my role in art was, because I was such a deep appreciator and such a passionate appreciator. But…

— Alexa Hirschfeld

I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and…

— Miguel

The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you want.' Such permission…

— Anonymous

'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

— Rachel Bloom

A Lot More Me' is the culmination of 10 years of work as a drag artist.

— Violet Chachki

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

— Richard Blanco

“None can imitate life without the intermediary of art.”

— William Bolitho

I paint and draw my heart and mind on paper. It makes me happy.

— Bhumika Chawla

As a new artist you should ignore trends at all costs.

— Wendy Starland

The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it.

— Jeffrey Loria

The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.

— Otto Hermann Kahn

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

— Charles Horton Cooley

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”

— G.K. Chesterton

God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

— Vincent Van Gogh

A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

— Ray Wilkins

Art can have connections over many centuries or thousands of years.

— Wolfgang Laib

In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates.

— Patricia Hampl

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

— Diana Vreeland

We use art to combat the dark side of capitalism.

— John Fetterman