Artist Quotes - page 3

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. (Oscar Wilde)
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. View quote
Oscar Wilde
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism. View quote
Robert Delaunay
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. View quote
James A. Michener
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. View quote
Samuel Beckett
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer - at least the answer for myself. Art is an action against death. It is denial of death. View quote
Jacques Lipchitz
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. View quote
Jacques Lipchitz
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. View quote
John Steinbeck
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. View quote
H. G. Wells
The artist must be in his work like God in his Creation, invisible and all-powerful, so that he is felt everywhere but not seen. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Every artist writes his own autobiography. View quote
Havelock Ellis
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. View quote
Henri Matisse
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. View quote
Andy Warhol
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler. View quote
Izaak Walton
The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. (Jean Cocteau)
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. View quote
Jean Cocteau
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. View quote
Marc Chagall
I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful. View quote
Frank Frazetta
By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do. View quote
Frank Frazetta