Fine Artists Quotes

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars or fine artists or writers, it is the subhistory of female artists that if you're going to make art, you're also going to have a full-time job of defending your right to make art.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.

What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a better place. You know, it's a great thing to be doing. A fine artist does that, too, but they make the expression for themselves, not for others' use.

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.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.

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

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

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

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

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

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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 don't say everything, but I paint everything.

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

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

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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

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

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

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

I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a choice that I made, very early on. I was interested mainly in the entertainment arts. I wasn't as interested in being a fine artists.

I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear

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

I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

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

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

The painting has a life of its own

Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world. MFA abilities are harder to outsource and more important in an abundant world.

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

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters