Friendship Quote by Sophie Blackall

I started collecting my artist friends, artists like myself who nobody had yet noticed. In everything, all I am collecting, so to speak, are…

— Georg Baselitz

I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

— Marcel Dzama

Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you…

— Jasper Johns

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because…

— Paul Theroux

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

— Paul Cezanne

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

— Bob Ross

I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they are done…

— John Lurie

As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make your work…

— Robert Longo

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but…

— Toni Onley

I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.

— Rineke Dijkstra

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

— Julian Schnabel