Art Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon…

— Nathan Farragut Twining

“And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary…

— Peter Schjeldahl

For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow as a…

— Ashton Sanders

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

— Naum Gabo

Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It…

— Grant Wood

It simply becomes more and more difficult as you move further away from your heyday, music being the only format where you're treasured for…

— Alison Moyet

As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.

— PSY

In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of understanding art.…

— Salman Rushdie

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

— Naomi Watts

“Are you amongst the ones who find the path to pleasure from pain, or the path to pain from pleasure?”

— Miguel Cabrera

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is…

— Honore de Balzac