Artist Quote by Michelangelo Download Open image “I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.” — Michelangelo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Let Paint Paint Painting Patrons Let Pressures Pressures Patrons
I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing. — Roger de Grey Copy Share Image
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings. — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it. — Roger de Grey Copy Share Image
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp 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
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
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead 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
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
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
