Quotes on Artist

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.

I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it has to do with believing that it’s possible and acceptable for you to do it. We’ve had these doors open wide for only a decade or so, and most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.