Best Artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 13

“On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.”

Mean Whole Earth Used Artist Black Can Do Modern Ivory Palette Pompeii

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.”

Use Artist Imagination

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.”

Law Artist Laws Of Nature

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!”

People Real Seems Artist Sides Pay Position Lifetime Painter Honour Compliment Showers Real Friends

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.”

Men Wells Looks May Form Artist Evil Love Is Tragedy Cures Well Being Wholeness Clay Surgeons Claws God Is Love Obstinacy

Author:Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

“I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.”

Knows Art Artist Position Critics I've Learned Activist Dislike

Author:Lucy R. Lippard

“The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.”

Artist Cease Artistic Instant Paradoxical Precarious Sociability

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?”

People Doe Artist Asks

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.”

Needs Trying Artist Term Secret Encouragement Ashamed Pregnancy

Book:The Sound of Paper

Source: The Sound of Paper

“A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.”

Artist Deals Records

Author:Lady Gaga

“If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.”

Ifs Trying Heart Artist Ears

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.”

Artist Painting Activity Mature

Author:Ad Reinhardt

“I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.”

World Art Ideas Artist Situation Study Students University Museums Academic Art Students

Author:Ad Reinhardt

“The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”

Art Ideas Artist Business Ugly Selling Commodity Businessman

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.”

Artist Black Interesting Color Absence Symbolic

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”

Littles Art Moments Lying Artist Fall Audience Creating Falling In Love Tiny Live In The Moment Slides

Author:Lady Gaga

“And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?”

Should Firsts Artist Conditions Bears Agree Sake Burning Acknowledge Flames Bows

Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.”

Thinking Two Artist Responsibility Duty Combination Immense Irresponsibility

Author:David Cronenberg

“I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.”

World Way Artist Ability Free Will

Author:Lady Gaga

“All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.”

Humans Self Artist Human Beings Sacrifice Oneself

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.”

Shows Artist Bears Fame Elements Mansions

Author:Lady Gaga

“For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin.”

Trying Artist Technology Cutting Week Masters Mediums Mastery Novelty Violin New Technology Diving Short Cuts

Author:Stewart Brand

“I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.”

Feels Has Beens Feelings Artist Materials Apprentice Craftsman Artisans True Feelings

Author:Werner Herzog

“There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.”

World Light Artist Dangerous Communication Dependent Substitutes

Book:Kenneth and Mary Martin: 11 September-31 October 1987, Annely Juda Fine Art

Source: Kenneth and Mary Martin: 11 September-31 October 1987, Annely Juda Fine Art

“I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.”

Thinking Kind Reality Artist Flats Day To Day

Author:Sharon Stone

“The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.”

Thinking Facts Artist Scientist Dare Accepted Great Scientist

Book:Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters

Source: Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters

“We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.”

Jobs Artist Forget Money Months Demand Six Lawyer Producers Eras Making Money Tunes Engineers Destined Six Months Accountants

Author:Tony Bennett

“With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.”

Artist Portraits Portraiture

Author:Clement Greenberg

“Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.”

Artist Recognition Performing Our Time Composer

Book:Hofmann: twelve color plates, twenty-one black and white illustrations

Source: Hofmann: twelve color plates, twenty-one black and white illustrations

“Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.”

Heart Truth Artist Honest Honesty Truth Is Pure Purity Unattainable Naivety Complete Honesty

Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity of everyone else in the community.”

Real Artist Community Harder Raises Sanctity

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.”

Ifs Art Artist Teach Greater Pieces Achieve Elements Achievement Increase Unity Variety Complexity Works Of Art Satisfying

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.”

Knows Artist Greater Ought Thousand Painful Painful Death

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.”

People Artist Next Not Interested

Author:Lady Gaga

“The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.”

World May Book Matter Happens Artist Interest Deals Emotion Imagine Paint Doing Nothing

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.”

Ifs Kind Art Artist Difficult Study Ambition

Book:American Letters: 1927-1947

Source: American Letters: 1927-1947

“My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.”

Artist Philanthropist

Author:Lady Gaga

“Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.”

Real Enough Shows Light Artist Creativity Skills Ideals True Artists

Author:Roger Scruton

“If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Hands Bigs Artist Next Ability Greatness Tests Pockets Coming Out Very Deep Soulless

Author:Lady Gaga

“It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just that. Memorable performances of wonderful songs that ensure Luther's legacy will live on forever.”

Done Artist Song Justice Forever Wonderful Impossible Tasks Performances Legacy Memorable Impossibility Luther Landmarks

Author:Clive Davis

“We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.”

Has Beens Art Ideas Artist Freedom Personality Art Is Instinct Passionate Painter Works Of Art Sensations Restraint Caricatures Copying

Author:Maurice Denis

“Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.”

Wells Able Artist Order Actors Successful Musician Painter All Time Being Successful Great Artist

Author:Lady Gaga

“Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.”

Ifs Writing Looks Artist Song Willing Capable Wounds

Author:Lady Gaga

“It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”

Giving Feelings Artist Wish Painting Perception Observation Atmosphere Register

Author:Lucian Freud

“The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.”

Humans Purpose Artist Human Beings Tasks Uncomfortable

Book:Lucian Freud

Source: Lucian Freud

“At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.”

Firsts Littles Persons Made Artist Models Sculpture Modelling

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.”

Artist Three Hours Quality Journey Cold Six Stores Snow Wet Tense Snowball

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature are mind's Environment within which we can detect the essence of man's Being and Purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness.”

Men Mind Art Form Purpose Artist Consciousness Environment Journey Draws Essence Guides I Have Learned Asia Clue

Author:Morris Graves

“We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.”

Artist Makers

Author:Philip Guston

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