Artist Quotes/Quotes on Art

[JohnEmmett]

Hard to argue with his success… and I am speaking purely in terms of aesthetics.

he expressed his philosophy

 

[JohnEmmett]

 

[Iain]

We fear everything all the time.

Gilbert and George

 

[Desforges]

I need a drink

ME

 

[JohnEmmett]

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. --Robert Hughes

I was distracted


Now I understand

 

[JohnEmmett]

 

[Iain]

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." Hallelujah! Amen.

Cesar. A. Cruz. Apparently.

 

[Artyczar]

Love that!

 

[JennieJo]

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A favourite of mine

 

[JennieJo]

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Creativity Takes Courage, Matisse. That's the one that kept me going when I was totally useless Now, I'm using my made up #tag. #BABBA Be A Brave Bold Artist.

 

[stlukesguild]

 

[Artyczar]

I sure love her.

 

[Bartc]

 

[Desforges]

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And they sold some!

 

[laf.art]

And they sold some!

Yes, I remember reading about these and wondered whether anyone opened one

 

[Artyczar]

Ewww!

 

[Iain]

That is good shit!

 

[bob]

The Short version:
Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. --Chuck Close

The Longer version:
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case. -- Chuck Close

it's basically my " unofficial " artists statement .

Just Paint , Get Sh*t Done

 

[Hermes2020]

That works for me, Bob. No matter how "uninspired" and unmotivated I feel, the moment I start doing something, I get a hundred new ideas. It works, even if I just randomly dab some paint onto the piece to get going.

 

[Artyczar]

... the moment I start doing something, I get a hundred new ideas.

This happens to me too and sometimes it's a problem.