Artist Quotes - Page 7

• The only thing I know is that I know nothing

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Learning

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• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Believe, Simple

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• Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

  Beck

  Mother, Art, Nature

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• The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

  John Berryman

  Art, Lucky, Worst

  1972 Interview in The Paris Review, winter issue.

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• The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Fall, Dark

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• I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

  Jodie Foster

  Art, Creativity, Responsibility

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• The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Loss, Architecture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Spiritual, Art, Real

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• No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Aquariums, Imagination

  Edward Hopper, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”

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• I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Art, Thinking, Creative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Inspirational, Motivational, Photography

  Herbert C. Lust, Alberto Giacometti, Aprile Gallant, Portland Museum of Art (2000). “Alberto Giacometti”

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Personality is everything in art and poetry.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Personality

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1921). “Goethe's Literary Essays”

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• We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Art, Ends, Famine

  Nikki Giovanni (1975). “The women and the men”, William Morrow &Company

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Art, Nature

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro

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• When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.

  Robert Redford

  Years, Stories, Actors

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• I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Powerful, Want, Knots

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• Let each man exercise the art he knows.

  Aristophanes

  Strength, Art, Life Changing

  Aristophanes (1960). “Aristophanes”

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• Artists are like everybody else.

  Damien Hirst

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• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  Jackson Pollock

  Etc, Painting, No Fear

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Expression, Values

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• The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

  Eric Gill

  Art, Different, Kind

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• I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

  Isabel Bishop

  Want, Wanted, Woman Artist

  "The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street". Book by by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273, 1992.

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