Artist Quotes · Page 71

We learned how to look at art from religion.

— Grayson Perry

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

— Balthus

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

— Washington Allston

I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts.

— Bern Will Brown

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

— Willem de Kooning

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

— Susan Sontag

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

— Harry S Truman

“Art cannot be Mastered, be a student for lifetime.”

— Balkrishn Sanmotra

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

— Rufino Tamayo

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

— Michelangelo

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist…

— Julie Doucet

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art…

— Margot Fonteyn

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

— David Bowie

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

— El Greco

“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions.”

— Nick Hornby

One challenge, if you do a website, a Youtube channel, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Ping, other things like that, is you don't have…

— Hilary Hahn

Incompatibilists will tell you that a work of art has no meaning unless the artists could have chosen to create a different…

— Nomy Arpaly

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting…

— Frida Kahlo

Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute…

— Tristan Tzara

I got my first tattoo when I was 14-years-old. Unfortunately I didn't need a signature, which I probably shouldn't of got done,…

— DeAndre Hopkins

“Sylvia would have taken it seriously- so strong was her devotion to the innate intelligence of form. Those pretty tools like glue…

— Elizabeth Winder

“The true artist has no pride. He sees unfortunately that art has no limits; he has a vague awareness of how far…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I'm kind of loath to pick one project over another or whatever. You go into every film sort of thinking it'll be…

— Cillian Murphy

You can never make a piece of art that pleases everybody.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

— Franz Kline

For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space.

— Petra Collins

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

— George Saunders

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

— Don Van Vliet

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,

— Robert Rauschenberg

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

— John Berger

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

— Vincent Van Gogh

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

— John Singer Sargent

“I can't drop it. It's how I'm drawn.”

— I.B. Nosey

I never had this idea, 'I wanna be a solo artist.'

— Alissa White-Gluz

I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

— Suzy Bogguss

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

— Juvenal

On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.

— Red Barber

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The great artists and poets may have gone, but football is here.”

— Phil Ball