Best Artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 29

“Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.”

Giving Mind Persons Art Done Facts Artist Emotion Talent Painting Essentials Essence Difficulty Pressure Profession Painter Characteristics Peace Of Mind Disappointed Under Pressure

Author:Titian

“Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?”

Humans Problem Today Artist

Book:Mark Tobey, art and belief

Source: Mark Tobey, art and belief

“An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.”

Form Artist Individual Expression Linked Groove Lifeless

Book:Mark Tobey, art and belief

Source: Mark Tobey, art and belief

“Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist) Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it. He will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it.”

Way Trying Art Artist Certain Simple Deals Cities Profound Mood Impression Instance Plastic Canvas Skyscraper

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.”

Doe Today Young Desire Artist Creative Cry Poet Ideals Violent Rebellion Aesthetic Veins Creative Art Clique Creative Artists Young Artists Futurist

Author:Umberto Boccioni

“There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.”

Artist Imagine Fool Unconscious Collaboration Primitive Robinson Crusoe

Author:William Baziotes

“There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.”

Art Artist All Things

Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.”

Should Hands Artist Needed Should Have Humble Labour Makers Clay Assisting

Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.”

Art Artist Art Is Unnecessary

Author:Randy Sanders

“I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's essential to continually experiment with different subject matter, types of paint and methods of painting.”

Thinking Art Different Matter Artist Subjects Painting Type Essentials Training Method Paint Experiments Formal Subject Matter Art History Different Subjects

Author:Ron Parker

“There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking.”

Knows Artist Meetings

Author:Irving Sandler

“An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.”

Knows Light Artist Values Dark Focus Effects Color Range Colour Bright Colors

Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.”

Lying Artist Power Emotional Painting Intellectual Conscious Response Association Subconscious Emotional Response

Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“I can truthfully say, in arts I have pretty much seen and done it all and, at my age, I have no patience with wide-eyed artists fooling themselves about their place in history. We should know by now that it is the whim of the elite few who set the rules... those who have fooled themselves into believing that they are God's gift to the ages.”

Knows Should Believe Art I Can Done Age Artist Wide Elites Fooled Whim No Patience I Have No Patience

Author:Donald Lambert

“When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels, the brush we use is a pressure sensitive pen. The colors are the same as painters use, and how we get to the final image is the same gut wrenching way.”

Way Use Artist Color Painting Computer Pressure Paint Finals Painter Sensitive Guts Digital Pens Brushes Pixels

Author:Donald Lambert

“I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.”

Two Ideas Artist Originals Photographer Profession Print Livelihood Original Ideas

Author:Donald Lambert

“Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.”

Artist Left Technology Creative Computer Tools Smell Mediums Flats Stations Brushes Jars Creative Art Creative Artists

Author:Donald Lambert

“I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.”

Believe Different Facts Artist I Believe Views Accepting Criticism I Believe In Point Of View Different Points Of View

Author:Paul Emsley

“The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.”

Mean Feelings Artist Understanding Appeals Application

Book:Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape

Source: Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape

“All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.”

May Artist Color Fine Achievement Productions Colour Execution Parades All The Best Greatest Achievement Concealment Pigment Best Artist

Book:Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape

Source: Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape

“Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.”

Needs Art Artist

Author:Laurence Gartel

“To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.”

World Artist Responsibility Vision Destiny Shapes Taking Responsibility

Author:Laurence Gartel

“When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness are threats to the status quo. It is an artist's job to be an 'outlaw.”

World Want Art Jobs Artist Threat Individuality Scared Shock Uniqueness Status Quo Outlaw Art World

Author:Laurence Gartel

“It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.”

Reality Artist Special Fine Degrees Privilege Clarity Data Purity Intensity Realism Fine Arts Fine Artists

Author:Alton Tobey

“The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.”

Reality Form Artist Roles Deeper Rhythm Viewers Apprehension

Author:Leland Bell

“We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.”

Artist

Book:Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator

Source: Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator

“I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.”

People Mind Persons Art Matter Artist Individual Art Is Statistics

Author:Maurizio Cattelan

“I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.”

Thinking Should Artist Money Enemy Painting Significant Plenty Earning Resent Earning A Living

Author:Arnold Friberg

“There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.”

People Two Different Age Young Artist Careers Masters Type Genius Errors Trials Best Work Trial And Error

Author:David Galenson

“Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.”

Long Artist Courses Goal Careers Achieve Periods Skills Frustration Improving Inability Perfectionist

Book:Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

Source: Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

“The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a particular purpose... a problem solved can free him to pursue new goals.”

Problem Purpose Artist Goal Achieve Particular Satisfied Pursue Precision New Goal

Book:Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

Source: Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

“Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.”

Has Beens Artist Goal Perception Innovation Visuals Motivated Aesthetic Criteria Procedures Presenting Visual Perception

Author:David Galenson

“Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.”

Made Artist Influence Depends Areas Importance Innovation

Book:Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

Source: Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

“It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.”

Artist Critics Recognition Great Art Great Artist Collectors Curator

Author:David Galenson

“Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.”

Artist Vision Share Paint Enjoyment

Author:John Kurtz

“Artists never seem to get bored with life.”

Seems Artist Bored Boredom

Author:John Kurtz

“How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?”

Artist Contribution

Author:John Kurtz

“Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.”

Way Doe Important Seems Artist Fashion Unique

Author:John Kurtz

“If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.”

Ifs Artist Periods Entertainers

Author:Rico Lebrun

“I remind myself that traveling through life as an artist requires one to distill things slowly. To be inquisitive, inventive, and patient - a lot of things get discarded along the way. It's a little like boiling sea water to get at the salt.”

Way Littles Artist Water Sea Patient Salt Discarded Boiling Inquisitive Sea Water

Author:James Nares

“Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself.”

Giving Wells Art Might Artist Sound Effort Week Appearance Working It Aspire Patronizing Peeves

Author:James Nares

“Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?”

Self Dream Artist Fantasy Serving Our Dreams Pretense Self Serving

Book:The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol

Source: The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol

“An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.”

May Body Used Artist Advantage Consuming Ecosystems

Author:Jan Peacock

“It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.”

Artist Can Do Poet Profession I Realized Epiphany Translators Linguists

Author:Jan Peacock

“There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you.”

Ifs Artist Wonderful Down And Peculiar Slides Up To You Ups & Downs Good Art Good Artist

Author:Milton Resnick

“I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.”

Knows World Action Artist Individuality Painter Abstract Hats Followers Admirer Monet Hats Off

Author:Milton Resnick

“When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply say, 'If you know less, you're better off as an artist.”

Ifs Knows Moments Artist Know How Picks That Moment Brushes Better Off

Author:Milton Resnick

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.”

World Artist Interesting Share Enthusiasm Fascination

Author:Jim Rowe

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