Best Artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 12

“To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever.”

Thinking Want Art Together Desire Artist Forever Integrity Fame Live Forever Intangible Being Famous Desire To Live

Author:Damien Hirst

“I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.”

Thinking Artist Invention Reinventing Yourself

Author:Damien Hirst

“As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.”

People Art Artist Art Is Selling Buying

Author:Damien Hirst

“Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.”

Trying Artist Fall Models Thoughtful Construction Rivals

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.”

Sometimes Artist Realizing Study Models

Author:Paul Cezanne

“To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.”

Men Artist Found Wish Pleasure Study He Man Standards Raises Obscurity

Author:Paul Cezanne

“There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.”

Art Different Artist Profession Good Art

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.”

Heart Desire Artist Creation Organs Destined Pits Deep Down

Author:Paul Klee

“In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.”

Shows Reality Artist Concerned Visible

Author:Paul Klee

“The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.”

Artist Members Conservative Uneasiness

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.”

Men Artist Humanity Natural Focus Importance Reactions

Author:Ben Shahn

“Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.”

Artist Style Mediums Peculiar Personal Style Rapport

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.”

Art Artist Individual Class Painting Works Of Art Uniqueness Predictions Sculpture

Author:Ben Shahn

“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.”

Art Inspiration Past Artist Individual Results Education Study Talent Taught Art Is Tradition Deny

Author:Gustave Courbet

“Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.”

Mean Art Ideas Artist Talent Periods Faculty

Author:Gustave Courbet

“Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.”

Sometimes Form Artist Order Objects Mere Representation Spices

Book:Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays

Source: Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays

“The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.”

Purpose Artist Principles Needed Parsimony

Book:Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.”

Persons Self Artist Education Taught Ignorant Self Taught Ignorant Person

Author:John Constable

“Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.”

Art Artist Difficult Challenges Responsible Aging Being Responsible Being An Artist

Author:Tracey Emin

“I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.”

Artist Commerce

Author:Tracey Emin

“I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.”

Way Artist Term Failure

Author:Tracey Emin

“The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist's eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder.”

Doe Hands Eye Artist Records Painting Gestures Linear Beholder Eye Of The Beholder Graphs

Author:Roger Fry

“While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.”

Art Artist Study Flow Excellence Fountain

Book:Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

Source: Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

“A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.”

Art Desire Artist Passion Method Methodology

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.”

Men May Artist Term Painter Humiliating Imitator

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.”

Knows Should Mind Art Artist Principles Taste Models Advantage Excellence Painter Assistance Good Art Good Artist

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest and as true to nature from their convictions; he doesn't believe that everyone should see alike.”

Should Believe May Artist Honest Conviction Grants Liberal Arts Cezanne

Author:Mary Cassatt

“At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.”

Thinking School Artist New York Patriotism Future Time

Book:Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926

Source: Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926

“Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?”

Ifs May Artist Answers Impossible Groups Achievement Importance Following

Book:Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

Source: Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

“What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.”

Artist Paint Frustration

Book:Triptych

Source: Triptych

“One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.”

Should Artist Difficult Enemy Treats Difficulty

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.”

Mind Artist Written Essence Notes Insight Intimate Pockets Comment Closest Notebook Sketchbooks

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.”

Shows Artist Talent Personality Limitation Range Revealing Vagueness

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.”

Ifs Believe Humans Art Feelings Artist I Believe Communication Benefits Messages Art Is Communicate Works Of Art Human Experience Universality

Author:David Walker

“There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.”

Artist Results Greatness Landscape Selection Great Art Great Artist

Author:Alain de Botton

“If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.”

Ifs Form Artist Practice Constant Imitation Nourishment Crude

Author:Cennino Cennini

“Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.”

World Form Artist Order Forever Chaos Conventional Mundane Genesis Unsatisfied Apathetic Artist Love

Author:Rollo May

“Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.”

Running Artist Force Produce Wrestling Running Away

Author:Rollo May

“The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.”

May Artist Speak Alive Listening Confused Passivity Receptivity

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation.”

Moving Artist Process Creativity Mystery Creation Periods Timing Receptivity Birthing

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.”

Way Art Care Artist Music Musician Strive Prosperity Take Care Riches True Artists

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?”

Years Artist Understanding Week Months Cost Reflection Understood Flash Dilettantes

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.”

Firsts Art Artist Can Do Magnificent Competence

Author:Francisco Goya

“Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!”

Art Desire Artist Effects Terrible Prove Temptation Idealism Sinister

Book:I Married a Communist

Source: I Married a Communist

“I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.”

Art Use Light Artist Black White Knowing Objects Painting Skills Convinced Supreme Relief Shade Black And White

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.”

Artist Wonderful Wonderful Things Invitations Charitable

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.”

Children Together Artist Fit Creating Bread Painter

Book:Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit

Source: Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit

“To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.”

Artist Connections Relate Collectors Juxtaposition

Author:Corita Kent

“Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.”

Artist Time Great Art Great Artist

Book:Engravings by Hogarth

Source: Engravings by Hogarth

“Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.”

Artist Order Pieces Painting Music Is Admire Chaotic Disconnected

Author:Anthony Storr

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