Artist Quote by Oscar Wilde

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

— Anthony Trollope

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

— Eugene Delacroix

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Working with artistic people is very special, especially when they are so professional.

— Santiago Calatrava

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This…

— Mark Rothko

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from…

— Sarah Kay

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study…

— Ben Shahn

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people…

— Joshua Reynolds

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

— Henry James

I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process.

— Kehinde Wiley

“Over time, the life of a productive artist becomes filled with useful conventions and practical methods, so that a string of finished pieces continues…

— David Bayles