Artist Quotes

“At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.” -M.C. Escher

“The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.” -Banksy

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” -Michelangelo

“My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.” -Carl Andre

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” -Edgar Degas

“Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.” -John Opie

“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.” -Ad Reinhardt

“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” -Pablo Picasso

“I don’t like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.” -Frank Stella

“It is important to express oneself… provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.” -Berthe Morisot

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.” -Andy Warhol