Famous quotes by Artists

"After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time, instead of this evening painting session, I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often"

Gustav Klimt, Artist

"When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort"

Kevyn Aucoin, Artist

"Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love"

Claude Monet, Artist

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be"

Grandma Moses, Artist

"What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?"

George Grosz, Artist

"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit"

George Grosz, Artist

"When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection"

Agnes Martin, Artist

"It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns"

Willem de Kooning, Artist

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers"

Claude Monet, Artist

"I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising"

Jeff Koons, Artist

"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers"

Claude Monet, Artist

"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them"

Thomas Kinkade, Artist

"Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"Believe it or not, I can actually draw"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"Truth exists; only lies are invented"

Georges Braque, Artist

"Art is made to disturb, science reassures"

Georges Braque, Artist

"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can"

Samuel Lover, Artist

"Once an object has been incorporated in a picture, it accepts a new destiny"

Georges Braque, Artist

"So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated"

George Grosz, Artist

"There is a supply for every demand"

Florence Scovel Shinn, Artist

"There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object"

Marc Davis, Artist

"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men"

Giorgio de Chirico, Artist

"Our society's need for escapism has always interested me"

David Lloyd, Artist

"Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"The corruption of the American soul is consumerism"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

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