Charles Baudelaire Quotes

A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging.

I've always felt the portrait is an occasion for marks to happen. I've never viewed the portrait as about the sitter. Even when I go to the National Portrait Gallery, I'm not thinking about the sitter; I'm thinking about how the artist chose that color or that highlight. It becomes about the time, place, and context.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

The art of making art, is putting it together.

I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

Artists are all giving so much of ourselves to the work and the people and the press and the media and Twitter and all that now. For me, being able to create from a genuine place is really difficult lately because there's so much going on all the time, but when all that stuff gets quiet, you can explore your ideas without any ego or mental chatter.

I think what we should concentrate on is what it feels like to be a working artist in the day to day. One doesn't imagine what comes down the line.

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

The artist must be ecstatic about something.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.