Artist Quotes - Page 2

A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling.

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious individualistic unconventional sensitive irritable.

Robert Motherwell

Culture is something you cannot buy something you cannot import something you cannot learn or produce at will. A writer an artist or musician cannot sit down and say 'Now I will produce culture.' Culture is something that evolves out of the simple enduring elements of everyday life elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Ted Shawn

Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.

Modest Mussorgsky

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Art is a delayed echo.

George Santayana

The object of art is to give life a shape.

I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.

If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

George Santayana

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

Vincent van Gogh

Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Vincent van Gogh

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

Simonides

Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these 3 000 are in existence.

Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.

Vincent van Gogh

Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.

Tacitus

The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

The scholar seeks the artist finds.

The song of the brush.

Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

John Cage

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

Rainer Maria Rilke

(Ars longa vita brevis.) Art is long life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation it should be a presentation.

Jacques Reverdy

An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Ben Shahn

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

G.K. Chesterton

Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

Ned Rorem

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.

Vincent van Gogh

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.

Ned Rorem

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

Bernard Berenson

Write the masterpiece that has not been written.Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung.Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted.Create the masterpiece that has not been created.

Matshona Dhliwayo

He stares at meâ€”taking me inâ€”with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Vincent van Gogh

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

Luhraw

Art is unpredictable.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

Richard Linklater

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.

Robert Olen Butler

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.

[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.

Audrey Niffenegger

El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)

Francisco de Goya

I wanna be forever young.

Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

William Goldman

Art is a passion or it is nothing

People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'.

Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers...

Mediocrity is Death.

Suleman Abdullah

The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion.

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