100+ Fine Artists Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

- Paul Valery

topic: Art, Artist, Artistic, Inspirational Artist, Creative Artists

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

- Aristotle

topic: Art, Philosophy, Philosophical, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

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

- Francis Bacon

source: "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

topic: Life, Beauty, Beautiful, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

Great art picks up where nature ends.

- Marc Chagall

topic: Art, Ends, Great Art, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

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

- Charles Horton Cooley

topic: Art, Failure, Positive Thoughts, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

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.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Art, Business, Thinking, Fine Artists, Good Artist

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

- Francisco Goya

source: Francisco de Goya, Peter Russell (2016). “Delphi Complete Paintings of Francisco de Goya (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

topic: Mother, Art, Monsters, Fine Artists

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Art, People, Want, Starry Night, Painting And Art

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

- W. Ann Reynolds

topic: Art, Women, Fine Artists

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

topic: Art, Theory, Flats, Fine Arts, Inspirational Nature

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

- Rembrandt

source: "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

topic: Art, Grandchildren, Painting, Painting And Art, Painting Art

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Art, Business, Acting, Fine Arts, Inspirational Artist

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

- Francisco Goya

source: Lucia P. Iannone, Francisco Goya (1981). “Goya: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. Arthur Ross, Yale University Art Gallery, September 16-November 15, 1981”

topic: Monsters, Impossible, Fantasy, Fine Artists, Abandoned Buildings

I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody 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.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Empty Space, Commercial Art, Fine Artists, Artistry, Artists Minds

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

- John Updike

topic: Appreciation, Teacher, Art, Breathing Space, Inspirational Art

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

- Salvador Dali

topic: Funny, Music, Sarcastic, Fine Arts, Imperfect Person

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Art, Nature, Reality, Fine Arts, Fine Artists

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

- Edward Hopper

source: Edward Hopper, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”

topic: Art, Aquariums, Imagination, Fine Arts, Fine Artists

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

- Henri Matisse

topic: Art, Emotional, Feelings, Fine Arts, Impressionism

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

- Michelangelo

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Art, Fine Arts, Inspirational Art

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Life, Beautiful, Art, Inspiration And Art, Spider Web

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

- Pablo Picasso