Art Quote by Grandma Moses Download Open image “A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.” — Grandma Moses ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Artistic Primitive Sells
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent? — William Morris Copy Share Image
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled… — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a good day's… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
Now that I am ninety-five years old, looking back over the years, I have seen many changes taking place, so many inventions have been… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond. — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren. — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the… — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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