Browsing Topic Best Famous Artist Quotes

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

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.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

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

Love … is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

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

Don’t think about making art.

A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.

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.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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

The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

The room is there for the human being – not the human being for the room.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it’s making space without building it

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I paint for myself. I don’t know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form — confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.