Best artist & should Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull

“Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.”

Should Artist Stuff Interest

Author:David Hockney

“The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.”

Should Artist Expression Strive Surface Storm Clouds

Author:Albert Pinkham Ryder

“The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.”

Should Artist Fear Slave Details Storm Clouds

Author:Albert Pinkham Ryder

“The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.”

Want Should Ideas Artist Drunkenness Intoxicated

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“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

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

Should Artist Difficult Enemy Treats Difficulty

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“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

“I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.”

Should Trying Artist Study Pieces Masters Structure Painter Artistic Just One Copies Squares Inches Execution Canvas Small Pieces Rubens

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?”

Needs Should Art Soul Matter Spirit Desire Artist Wish Failing Painting Noble Your Soul Host Kindred Painting Art

Book:Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

Source: Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

“The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.”

Way Should Firsts Made Artist Felt Simple Understood Simplicity Details Spectators Superfluous Elimination Beholder Motifs Simple Ways

Author:Alfred Sisley

“They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.”

Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

“The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.”

Should Artist Understanding Greater Students Ambition Fellows Painter Homage Fickle

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the correct one, that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all artists are fair game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips.”

Should Artist Games Heaven Common Attitude Painting Fairs Direct Grateful Forgiving Critics Dues Impression Remarks Pseudo Fair Game

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.”

Should Jobs Artist Source Criticism Productivity Approval Petty Arrested Avoidance Closure Premature Approval Of Others

Author:Robert Genn

“Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.”

Should Trying Heart Children Moments Artist Born Loneliness Broken Happy Children Happy Moments

Book:Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee

Source: Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee

“An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.”

Should Ideas Whole Artist Risk Being An Artist Taking Risks

Author:JR

“An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.”

Knows Should Long Art Lasts Artist Values Shock Art History Shock Value

Author:Robert Longo

“Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.”

Should Art Artist Break Alive Expression Claims Cameras Conventions Worn Freedom Of Expression Worn Out

Author:Alvin Langdon Coburn

“The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.”

Knows Should Shows Artist Support Know How Details Pigment Best Artist

Author:Charles de Lint