Artist Quotes · Page 81

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.

— Titian

You just can't control your art in the future.

— Damian Loeb

When real work happens and that's when real art happens.

— Devendra Banhart

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

— Al Yankovic

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?

— Edgar Degas

“She wants to paint the living room yellow. I have not the words.”

— Mil Millington

Everyday's a good day when you paint

— Bob Ross

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.

— Alexandra Stoddard

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

— Paul Cezanne

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

— George Michael

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

— Aristotle

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

— Stevie Smith

I've just grown as a person. I think that's what helped me grow as an artist.

— Fabolous

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

— Criss Jami

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

— Boots Riley

There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with…

— Gustave Flaubert

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with…

— Rita Ora

If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the…

— Arshile Gorky

The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours…

— Oliver Burkeman

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not…

— Seth Godin

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that…

— Danny Fox

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're…

— Bruce Springsteen

I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.

— Etgar Keret

I always hope that the artwork will complement and enrich a story.

— Robert Paul Weston

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

All art worthy of the name is religious.

— Henri Matisse

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

— Julia Cameron

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

— Patti Smith

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

— Iris Murdoch

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

— Ai Weiwei

The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Being an artist is celebrating life.

— Henry Moore

Challenging is a master arts of arts

— Anonymous

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.

— George Saunders

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

— Julia Cameron

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

— Denis Diderot