Art Quote by Nan Goldin

“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine…

— Cheech Marin

When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying…

— Frederick Lenz

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look…

— Nan Goldin

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

— Nan Goldin

“faces in Renaissance art. Heart pounding. Back. Bird. Hands. Feet. Heart. Back, back, bird, feet, bird, bird, bird. Feet, hands, feet, feet, feet. Hands.…

— Dan Harris

I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music…

— Amos Oz

I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff…

— Peter Weller

“I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham and Edmund…

— Alan Lee

I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate way that…

— Sigrid

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

— Sigmar Polke

Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature…

— John Berger