Artist Quotes · Page 65

I think I am beginning to learn something about painting.

— Titian

“Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.”

— Bauvard

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

— Tom Rachman

I think people are intolerant of artists.

— David Chase

Bad artists always admire each others work.

— Oscar Wilde

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

— Brian Eno

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

— Fred Williams

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

— Larry McMurtry

I feel people can relate to the struggling artist a little more sometimes than the big million-dollar country stars.

— Sam Palladio

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

— Glen Duncan

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years…

— Thomas Hoving

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

— Alan Rickman

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

— Eduard Hanslick

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in…

— Georges St-Pierre

I went to Havana, and I was like, "Wow, there's culture everywhere!" That was one thing that I did notice when I…

— Aaron McGruder

“The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked…

— Douglas Adams

I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with…

— Camille Henrot

The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's…

— Sean Scully

I like to tell the artist what the song or album means to me, in detail. Then I let the artist run…

— Rick DeJesus

Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of…

— Tomie dePaola

I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are…

— Leonardo da Vinci

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

— Christian Morgenstern

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

I was welding art from my house, making abstract figures out of metal.

— Ed Dwight

“Don't expect art and you'll find art in the unexpected.”

— Philip David Hogan

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

— Anais Nin

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

— Douglas Lockwood

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

— Claude Monet

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

— John Tenniel

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.

— George Carlin

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

— Billy Cannon

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

— Maurice Denis

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

— Jane Austen

Arijit Singh is big, is a very good artist, and we all know that.

— Ankit Tiwari

She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back.

— Bob Dylan

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

— Plato