Art Quote by Peter Schjeldahl Download Open image “To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.” — Peter Schjeldahl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Artists Artists Entirely Entirely Non Greatest Artists Non Verbal
The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed! — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens. — Peter Schjeldahl 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
