Best Artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 24

“The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.”

Artist Ability Class Skills Draws Determine Drawing Academic Curriculum Workshops

Author:Igor Babailov

“The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.”

People Artist Song Ego Singing Opposites Judgement

Author:Romare Bearden

“Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.”

Men World Want Art Stills Book Happiness Joy Lying Artist Time Lost Enjoy Sin Excellence Permanent Immortality Covered Butterfly Flood Monarchy Venice Sinking Great Book Dams Florence

Author:Romare Bearden

“The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.”

Life Artist Imagination Function Organize Facets

Book:The Art of Romare Bearden

Source: The Art of Romare Bearden

“For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.”

Ifs Self Artist Values Creative Expression Products Fame Enjoyed Vans Self Expression Composing Complement Composing Music

Book:What Price Fame?

Source: What Price Fame?

“Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.”

Artist Path Influence Development Being True Imitation Emulation

Author:Ken Danby

“There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.”

Littles Inspiration Young Artist Motivation Offers Hunger Disservice Young Artists

Author:Ken Danby

“The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.”

Artist Roles Teacher Seeing Teaching Capable Enlightenment Explorers Conveying

Author:Ken Danby

“As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.”

Artist Vision Elements Concern Visuals Exclusion

Author:Ken Danby

“Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.”

Way Should Mind Wells Important Matter Use Reality Artist Goal Clear Special Style Draws Importance No Matter What Insight Drawing Encounters

Book:The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Source: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

“If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.”

Ifs Artist Painting Sculpture Inexperience

Book:Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

“Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.”

Art Artist Difficult Situation Sadness Unhappy Awe Works Of Art Difficult Situations Awe Inspiring

Author:Eric Gibbons

“Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.”

Soul Spirit Artist Creation Exploration Intricate Desolation

Author:El Greco

“It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.”

Should Years Young Artist Company Struggle Color Colour Deprivation Young Artists

Author:El Greco

“There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.”

Long Has Beens Art Artist Genius Significant

Book:Art For Dummies

Source: Art For Dummies

“Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.”

Artist Business Excellent Businessman

Author:A. Y. Jackson

“What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.”

War Enough Problem Artist Stuff Gone Forever Glory Paint Technique Impression Visuals Impressionism

Author:A. Y. Jackson

“The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger... with the chance acquaintance.”

Artist Father Chance Wife Mines Painting Husband Stranger Usual Confession Acquaintance

Author:Ilya Kabakov

“An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration.”

Inspiration Artist

Author:Kenneth G. Mills

“Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to which the artist has drunk from the well of life may not guarantee success, it must surely improve the quality of his/her work.”

Ifs Wells May Art Spiritual Artist Quality Painting Art Is Depth Insight Drunk Guarantees

Author:Millard Sheets

“You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.”

Way Mind Hands Artist Fall Sleep Brain Too Much Dangerous Danger Skills Smart Ease Giants Criticize Facility Dangerous Things

Author:John French Sloan

“Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.”

Art Artist Lines Color Drawing Symbols Tone Plastic Graphic Formation Cornerstones Coordination

Author:John French Sloan

“Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.”

Art Artist Havens Students Generosity Generous Colour Works Of Art Palette Nickels Squeezing Art Students

Author:John French Sloan

“The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.”

Artist Order Records Awareness

Author:John French Sloan

“The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity to the drawing if the eye in the light is darker than the one in the shadow. It gives the head vividness.”

Ifs Giving Doe Light Eye Artist Shadow Add Drawing Portraiture Vividness Plasticity

Author:John French Sloan

“The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.”

Should Firsts May Artist Subjects Products Importance Finished Significance Aesthetic

Author:John French Sloan

“The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.”

Mean Matter Use Purpose Artist Subjects Technique Veils Great Art Subject Matter Great Artist Cloaks Resemblance

Author:John French Sloan

“Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.”

Trying School Form Artist Loses Study Perspective Tradition Ancient Drawing Chinese Conventions Decay Brushes Texture Fruition

Author:John French Sloan

“Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.”

Art Artist Talking Special Elements Add Meetings Possession Treasure Contemporary Collecting Collectors Irreplaceable Contemporary Art

Author:Ernest West Basden

“Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.”

May Persons Art Artist Decision Careers Mystery Influence Emotional Products Taste Art Is Educated Personal Taste

Author:Ernest West Basden

“Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again.”

World Shows Artist Born

Author:Hermann Bahr

“A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.”

Inspiration Form Used Artist Wish Rich Possibility Clean Landscape Colour Inherent Begging Crisps

Author:Franklin Carmichael

“For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.”

Art Artist Painting Contrary Gaps Minors Extensions Frustrating

Author:Sonia Delaunay

“To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.”

Ideas Artist Memories Paint Oil Breathing Pushing Brushes Mixing Dripping Blurry

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments.”

Looks Made Seems Artist Normal Achievement Critics Obsessed Comment Ambitious Astonishing Pious Toss Wry

Book:Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

Source: Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

“If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.”

Ifs Important Seems Artist Century Emotional Painting Importance Contact

Author:James Elkins

“Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed together with powdered stones to give color... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal.”

Giving Made Two Different Together Artist Goal Water Color Painting Materials Stones Ultimate Ingredients Endeavor Fluid Alchemy Ultimate Goal Pigment

Author:James Elkins

“Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.”

Artist Speak Color Painting Mass Paint Mood Dialogue Unspoken

Author:James Elkins

“In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a theorist might be, to signal how inextricably linked these existences and practices might be.”

Want Might Artist Existence Practice Raises Signals Linked Theorists

Author:James Elkins

“I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws himself into this great masterpiece and collapses from exhaustion when it's finished. It's really not that way at all.”

Thinking Way Persons Artist Passion Emotion Concepts Finished Enthusiasm Collapse Masterpiece Exhaustion Great Passion

Author:Richard Estes

“I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.”

Mean I Can Artist Vision Advantage Stranger Outsiders Double Vision

Author:John Hirsch

“Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.”

Artist Mills Cockroaches

Author:Elaine de Kooning

“Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.”

Knows Used Artist Speak Creative Originals Response Gender Excellent Isolation Be Creative Feedback Woman Artist

Author:Elaine de Kooning

“In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.”

Needs Enough Artist Order Space Rooms Share Sacred Studios Vulnerable Protected Personal Space

Author:Adam Leipzig

“Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with... not really so scary.”

People Needs Artist Understanding Sides Born Business Creative Scary Familiar Creative People

Author:Adam Leipzig

“Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Important Artist Known Offers Sells Selling Artificial Frightening Promoting

Author:Adam Leipzig

“Like books, artists have their fates.”

Book Artist Fate

Author:Norbert Lynton

“As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.”

Artist Blood Pens

Author:Paul Monette

“The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.”

Persons Artist Roles Urges Deep Life

Author:Ann Mortifee

“Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.”

Writing Artist Song Paint Diaries

Author:Jon Pareles

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