Browsing Topic Best Famous Artist Quotes

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can’t attain it in anything.

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

We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant.

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

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn’t know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.

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

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The painting has a life of its own

Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn’t focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I’m one of the best painters.

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.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

Where there is Peace, there is Culture; Where there is Culture, there is Peace.

Art is all about doing what you shouldn’t.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.

There is no must in art because art is free.

If we don’t have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they’re smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character because they want to win. They want their views to prevail.

I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.