Art Quote by Laura Riding

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is…

— Laura Riding

As far as visual artists, I find inspiration in Henri Rousseau, who painted amazing, dream-like junglescapes without ever leaving France, and who sort of…

— Christopher Moore

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow…

— John F. Kennedy

“I was also, slowly, to learn that there were painters whom you grew out of (like the Pre-Raphaelites); painters you grew into (Chardin); painters…

— Julian Barnes

“The great French diarist Jules Renard (1864-1910) had small interest in non-literary art forms. When Ravel approached him wanting to set five of his…

— Julian Barnes

“As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still life or…

— Irving Stone

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer…

— Sam Francis

“And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

— Hedy Lamarr

Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific…

— Teju Cole

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about…

— Ed Harris