Quotes by Famous Artists

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

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star. 

Andy Warhol 

Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint.
 Francis Bacon

 

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.  

 William Blake     

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Leonardo da Vinci

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
Andy Warhol
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
Salvador Dali

I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.
Andy Warhol
I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant. Jenny Saville I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. Jeff Koons

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

Michelangelo

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like achild.
 Pablo Picasso

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

Edward Hopper

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Philip Guston

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

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
Salvador Dali

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
 Georgia O'Keeffe

Really I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

 Frida Kahlo

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love.

 Marc Chagall

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

Claude Monet