Famous Artist Quotes - Page 5

• You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Nature, Theory

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• While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Art, Reality

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires”, p.23, Hay House, Inc

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  Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Hate, Creativity

  Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

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• Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Men, Drawing

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Art

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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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• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Creative, Stealing

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• Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion". Book by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo (p. 134), 2003.

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• An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, War, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

  Amy Lowell

  Art, Men, Expression

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.7, Ardent Media

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• On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Two Sides, Ease

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Simplicity, Unnecessary

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• I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

  Frida Kahlo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Emotional, Feelings

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.66, Univ of California Press

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• Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Grandchildren

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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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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• Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Nature, Reality

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

  Stella Adler

  Life, Music, Crush

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

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• The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Strong, Knowing

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• The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Humble, Humility

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• Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Eye

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Jewels, Oysters

  The Atlantic, December 1965.

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