Artist S Quotes

24 quotes by 24 authors

• Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul. — Hans Hofmann
• A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to many interpretations, but… — Louise Bourgeois
• My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most… — Alfred Stieglitz
• The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist. — Sol LeWitt
• It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the… — Samuel R. Delany
• Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed — Daniel Gilbert
• Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a… — Mark Waid
• An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received;… — Lewis Hyde
• Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is… — Grant Wood
• The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. — George Saunders
• An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool — Michael Jackson
• What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of… — Pierre Bonnard
• The artist’s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-it’s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something out of it.… — Hilton Als
• Two main groups like to drop the readymade bomb—galleries and art historians. Galleries love to drop the Duchamp brand because dealers can try to convince… — Paddy Johnson
• People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in… — Charles de Lint
• An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky. — Aaron Sorkin
• There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artist’s success depends as much as anything… — Philip Roth
• What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something… — R C Sproul
• People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on… — Bill Watterson

Who Wrote These Artist S Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 24 Artist S Quotes as follows:

• 1 Artist S Quote by Louise Bourgeois
• 1 Artist S Quote by Alfred Stieglitz
• 1 Artist S Quote by Sol LeWitt
• 1 Artist S Quote by Samuel R. Delany
• 1 Artist S Quote by Daniel Gilbert
• 1 Artist S Quote by Mark Waid
• 1 Artist S Quote by Lewis Hyde
• 1 Artist S Quote by Grant Wood
• 1 Artist S Quote by George Saunders
• 1 Artist S Quote by Michael Jackson
• 1 Artist S Quote by Pierre Bonnard
• 1 Artist S Quote by Hilton Als
• 1 Artist S Quote by Paddy Johnson
• 1 Artist S Quote by Charles de Lint
• 1 Artist S Quote by Aaron Sorkin
• 1 Artist S Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Artist S Quote by Philip Roth
• 1 Artist S Quote by R C Sproul
• 1 Artist S Quote by Bill Watterson
• 1 Artist S Quote by David Lynch
• 1 Artist S Quote by Chuck Palahniuk
• 1 Artist S Quote by Terence McKenna
• 1 Artist S Quote by Neil Gaiman
• 1 Artist S Quote by Hans Hofmann