Art Quote by Sam Francis

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to…

— David Mamet

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow…

— John F. Kennedy

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“The art, the art of living, involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence…

— Henry Miller

Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process does not…

— Anne Truitt

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

— Josh Peck

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's…

— Andrew Wyeth

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

— Marion Cotillard

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.

— Peter Handke

The painting has a life of its own

— Jackson Pollock

One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or…

— Anonymous