Artist Quotes · Page 70

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics...

— Ian Mcewan

Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

— Joseph Joubert

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

— Eli Siegel

I think of me being a painter eventually.

— Syd Barrett

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

— Willem de Kooning

It's a work of art I ain't talkin mona lisa.

— Mac Miller

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

— Friedrich Schiller

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

— Joe R. Lansdale

“...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...”

— John Geddes

As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.

— Ashkan Kooshanejad

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

— Marina Abramovic

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

— Ad Reinhardt

Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does.

— Patricia Bosworth

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

— Alain LeRoy Locke

Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.

— Doug Liman

I want to reach out and entertain people. I want people to come to a museum that have never been in a…

— Wayne White

I think I'm enjoying writing for me.I know what's in my head, so there's a little less margin for error, but I…

— David Finch

If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have…

— Kate Greenaway

The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into…

— Paul Brunton

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio…

— Clint Black

It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to…

— Wolf Kahn

Artists are often having very similar conversations across the various disciplines through which they choose to excel, but you rarely see them…

— Michael Salu

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

— Andrew Wyeth

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

— Tony Curtis

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

— Agnes Martin

I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.

— Erykah Badu

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

— Simon Raven

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

— Joyce Cary

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

— Thomas Aquinas

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

— Henry David Thoreau

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

— Kate Chopin

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

— Noel Coward

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

— Roger Ebert

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

— Michel Foucault

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

Creative artists have great passion.

— Jack Welch