Art Quote by Kehinde Wiley

I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's relationship to…

— Kehinde Wiley

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must…

— Paul Cezanne

“The form and color which guide men experienced in the study of the masters are not always recognized by laymen. Yet they can feel…

— Walter Pach

It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree.…

— Joshua Reynolds

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

— Robert Henri

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should…

— John Ruskin

An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his…

— Anton Chekhov

An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.

— Wayne Thiebaud

The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the…

— Herbert Read

“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know --and how…

— William Knowlton Zinsser

No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true…

— Thomas Carlyle

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design,…

— Lorenzo Ghiberti