Art Quote by Man Ray Download Open image “To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.” — Man Ray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Members Our society Painter Painting
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else. — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a… — Man Ray 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
