Famous Artists

An alphabetical listing of all the famous artists posted on the ArtQuotes.net website. I’ve been adding at least a few artists every week since creating the new website so it’s a growing list. I’m mostly focusing on famous painters at the moment but I will start to add more sculptors, illustrators and sculptors soon.

To see artists listed by art movement, style, or other categorizations see the Big Artist List here.

All Famous Artists A to Z

• Jean Arp – – Art Quotes
  Famous French-German sculptor, painter and poet associated with Dada and abstract art.
• Frank Auerbach – – Art Quotes
  Notable German born British artist known for his probing paintings and drawings of heads.
• Francis Bacon – – Art Quotes
  Famous Irish born British expressionist painter known for his distorted portraits and depictions of the human body.
• Banksy – – Art Quotes
  Famous British anonymous artist, activist, street, urban, graffiti artist known for his painted stencil works.
• Georg Baselitz – – Art Quotes
  Notable German artist known for his expressive upside down paintings and brutal wooden sculptures.
• Jean-Michel Basquiat – – Art Quotes
  Famous African American artist known for his bold expressionist works.
• Max Beckmann – – Art Quotes
  German expressionist painter and printmaker known for his depictions of the darker side of humanity.
• Arnold Böcklin – – Art Quotes
  Swiss painter known for his very famous ‘Isle of the Dead’ painting which he did 5 different versions of.
• Pierre Bonnard – – Art Quotes
  Popular French painter, printmaker, illustrator and Post-Impressionist artist associated with the Les Nabis group.
• William-Adolphe Bouguereau – – Art Quotes
  Famous French realist painter known for his depictions of beautiful feminine women.
• Arthur Boyd – – Art Quotes
  Famous Australian painter, potter and printmaker known for his depictions of the Australian landscape.
• John Brack – – Art Quotes
  20th century Australian painter, draftsman, and printmaker famous for his depictions of life in Australia.
• Constantin Brancusi – – Art Quotes
  Famous Romanian born French sculptor known for his minimalist sculptures that sometimes bordered on abstraction.
• Georges Braque – – Art Quotes
  Famous French artist who developed Cubism with Pablo Picasso.
• Bernard Buffet – – Art Quotes
  French figurative painter known for his landscapes, still lives, cityscapes and portraits.
• Alexander Calder – – Sculpture Quotes
  Popular American sculptor known for abstract mobiles, wire portraits, and monumental public sculpture.
• Mary Cassatt – – Art Quotes
  Popular American female painter and printmaker of domestic scenes and portraits of women.
• Paul Cezanne – – Art Quotes
  Notable French Post-Impressionist painter known for his landscapes, still life, and portrait paintings.
• Chuck Close – – Art Quotes
  Famous American painter, printmaker and photographer known for his large portrait paintings.
• John Constable – – Art Quotes
  Famous British artist known for his landscapes of the English countryside.
• Lovis Corinth – – Art Quotes
  Famous German painter who blurred the lines between expressionism and impressionism.
• Gustave Courbet – – Art Quotes
  Popular French painter and realist artist who depicted daily life as it is.
• Elisabeth Cummings – – Art Quotes
  Popular Australian female artist known for her landscape paintings and prints of Australia.
• Salvador Dali – – Art Quotes
  Famous Spanish artist and self promoter who was a major figure in the Surrealist art movement.
• Jacques-Louis David – – Art Quotes
  French neoclassical painter of historical events, mythology and portraits.
• Edgar Degas – – Art Quotes
  Famous French Impressionist artist known for his skill as a draftsman, his dancers and interiors.
• Elaine de Kooning – – Art Quotes
  Notable abstract expressionist American female painter known for her portraits and abstract works.
• Willem de Kooning – – Art Quotes
  Famous Dutch-born American Abstract Expressionist painter known for his Woman series of paintings.
• Eugene Delacroix – – Art Quotes
  Notable French painter, printmaker and muralist associated with the Romantic art movement in France.
• Andre Derain – – Art Quotes
  Popular French painter and sculptor who was part of the Les Fauves or the Wild Beasts group of artists.
• Jim Dine – – Art Quotes
  Notable American painter, draftsman and printmaker known for his hearts, bathrobes and tools.
• Otto Dix – – Art Quotes
  Famous German expressionist artist associated with the New Objectivity art movement.
• William Dobell – – Art Quotes
  Australian portrait painter and Archibald Prize winner with his controversial Joshua Smith portrait.
• Peter Doig – – Art Quotes
  Scottish born painter living in Trinidad and Tobago and one of the highest selling living artists at auction.
• Ken Done – – Art Quotes
  Famous Australian artist known for his brightly colored expressive paintings of the Sydney Harbour and life in Australia.
• Russell Drysdale – – Art Quotes
  Notable Australian painter and draughtsman who painted the Australian outback and the people in it.
• Jean Dubuffet – – Art Quotes
  Famous French artist who promoted the Art Brut movement. Known for his paintings and sculpture.
• Marcel Duchamp – – Art Quotes
  Famous French artist who ‘created’ readymades like the urinal and retired from art to play chess.
• Thomas Eakins – – Art Quotes 
  Notable American realist painter, sculptor and photographer of the nude and portraits.
• Tracey Emin – – Art Quotes
  Controversial English conceptual artist associated with the Young British Artists or YBAs.
• Ron English – – Art Quotes
  Popular American artist, illustrator, activist, designer and political artist of the Popaganda business.
• Max Ernst – – Art Quotes
  German born painter, printmaker and sculptor involved in the Surrealism and Dada art movements.
• Shepard Fairey – – Art Quotes
  Famous American street artist, printmaker, illustrator, activist, and political artist known for his OBEY and HOPE posters.
• Henri Fantin-Latour – – Art Quotes
  Famous French realist painter known for his flower paintings and portraits.
• Helen Frankenthaler – – Art Quotes
  American abstract expressionist female artist known for her large fluid abstractions.
• Lucian Freud – – Art Quotes
  Famous British artist who painted nudes, portraits, interiors and animal paintings.
• Larry Gagosian – – Art Quotes
  American art dealer and art collector famous for the Gagosian Gallery with locations worldwide.
• Thomas Gainsborough – – Art Quotes
  Notable English painter of portraits and landscapes.
• Paul Gauguin – – Art Quotes
  Well known French painter and printmaker of the Post-Impressionist art movement.
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – – Art Quotes
  Famous French realist painter and sculptor of religious scenes, Greek mythology and Orientalism.
• Alberto Giacometti – – Art Quotes
  Famous Swiss born sculptor, draftsmen, printmaker and painter of portraits and figures in space.
• Diego Giacometti – – Art Quotes
  Notable Swiss furniture maker, sculptor and younger brother of Alberto.
• HR Giger – – Art Quotes
  Popular Swiss artist and designer known for his biomechanical images and his work on the Alien movie by Ridley Scott.
• James Gleeson – – Art Quotes
  Notable Australian gay artist, painter, poet, arts writer and surrealist.
• Antony Gormley – – Art Quotes
  Famous British sculptor and installation artist known for popular artworks like the Angel of the North.
• Francisco Goya – – Art Quotes
  Famous Spanish painter and printmaker known for his depictions of the darker side of humanity.
• George Grosz – – Art Quotes
  Famous German painter, printmaker and watercolorist depicting some of the darker and more shocking aspects of life.
• Philip Guston – – Art Quotes
  Notable Canadian American abstract expressionist and figurative painter.
• Keith Haring – – Art Quotes
  Famous American LGBT artist and muralist influenced by the pop art movement and graffiti.
• Erich Heckel – – Art Quotes
  Famous German expressionist painter and printmaker associated with the Bridge or Die Brücke group of artists.
• Barbara Hepworth – – Art Quotes
  Notable British woman sculptor and printmaker known for abstract stone carvings and large public sculptures.
• Damien Hirst – – Art Quotes
  Famous British conceptual artist known for his for his dot paintings and dead animals in fish tanks.
• David Hockney – – Art Quotes
  Famous gay English painter, draftsman and printmaker known for his boldly colored portraits and landscapes.
• Ferdinand Hodler – – Art Quotes
  Famous Swiss symbolist painter of landscapes, portraits and patriotic scenes.
• Hans Hoffman – – Art Quotes
  German-American abstract painter and art teacher associated with abstract expressionism and for being a colorist.
• Edward Hopper – – Art Quotes
  Notable American realist painter, draftsman, printmaker and watercolorist depicting modern life in America.
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – – Art Quotes
  French neoclassical painter and draftsman known for his portraits.
• Alexej von Jawlensky – – Art Quotes
  Famous Russian painter of portraits associated with the Der Blaue Reiter group and German expressionism.
• Jasper Johns – – Art Quotes
  Notable American pop artist, painter and printmaker known for his US flag paintings.
• Frida Kahlo – – Art Quotes
  Famous Mexican female painter known for her revealing self portraits and her marriage to Diego Rivera.
• Wassily Kandinsky – – Art Quotes
  Russian painter and printmaker known to have created some of the earliest purely abstract paintings.
• Anselm Kiefer – – Art Quotes
  German artist known for his large scale paintings, sculptures and installations.
• Martin Kippenberger – – Art Quotes
  Famous German painter and conceptual artist known for his expressive, sometimes shocking artworks.
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – – Art Quotes
  Famous German expressionist painter and printmaker of the Die Brücke or The Bridge art movement.
• Paul Klee – – Art Quotes
  Swiss born German painter, printmaker and draftsman known for his use of color and lines.
• Gustav Klimt – – Art Quotes
  Popular Austrian Symbolist painter known for his nudes and portraits of high-society women.
• Franz Kline – – Art Quotes
  American abstract expressionist artist known for his large black and white gestural paintings.
• Emily Kngwarreye – – Art Quotes
  Famous Australian Aboriginal artist known for her contemporary looking paintings steeped in traditional history and culture.
• Oskar Kokoschka – – Art Quotes
  Notable Austrian painter known for his expressive portraits and landscapes.
• Jeff Koons – – Art Quotes 
  Famous American pop kitsch painter and sculptor known for his large shiny works that sell for record prices at auction.
• Lee Krasner – – Art Quotes
  Famous American abstract expressionist painter who was married to Jackson Pollock.
• Yayoi Kusama – – Art Quotes
  Profile of the notable Japanese female painter, sculptor, and installation artist Yayoi Kusama.
• Jacob Lawrence – – Art Quotes
  Notable black artist depicting the struggles of African-Americans in the 20th century.
• Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – – Art Quotes
  Notable female portrait painter famous for her depictions of society people, including Marie Antoinette.
• Fernand Leger – – Art Quotes
  Popular 20th century modernist French painter, sculptor, printmaker and filmmaker.
• Leonardo da Vinci – – Art Quotes
  Famous Italian painter and thinker of the Renaissance who created the Mona Lisa (La Gioconda.)
• Roy Lichtenstein – – Art Quotes
  American painter, sculptor and printmaker best known for his comic book style pop art paintings.
• LS Lowry – – Art Quotes
  Famous British painter and draftsman known for his urban landscapes and scenes of everyday life.
• August Macke – – Art Quotes
  Famous German expressionist painter who was killed during the First World War.
• Rene Magritte – – Art Quotes
  Famous Belgian surrealist painter known for his artworks that played tricks with the eye and mind.
• Edouard Manet – – Art Quotes
  Famous French artist who enabled the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
• Franz Marc – – Art Quotes
  Popular German painter and printmaker known for his colorful depictions of animals and nature.
• Henri Matisse – – Art Quotes
  Famous French master painter and sculptor of the 20th century.
• Frederick McCubbin – – Art Quotes
  Popular Australian painter associated with the Heidelberg School of painters and Australian Impressionism.
• Michelangelo – – Art Quotes
  Italian high renaissance master sculptor and one of the greatest artists of all time.
• John Everett Millais – – Art Quotes
  Notable English painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art movement.
• Joan Miro – – Art Quotes
  Famous Spanish artist, painter, ceramicist, muralist and printmaker.
• Joan Mitchell – – Art Quotes
  Notable American female abstract artist associated with abstract expressionism.
• Amedeo Modigliani – – Art Quotes
  Famous Italian painter and sculptor best known for his nude paintings and portraits of his friends in Montparnasse, Paris, France.
• Piet Mondrian – – Art Quotes
  Influential Dutch abstract artist most famous for his geometric, primary colored paintings.
• Claude Monet – – Art Quotes
  Very famous French painter who founded Impressionism and painted the landscapes of France.
• Henry Moore – – Art Quotes
  Famous English sculptor and draftsman known for his monumental modern sculptures of the human figure.
• Giorgio Morandi – – Art Quotes
  Notable Italian painter and printmaker focused on the still life.
• Berthe Morisot – – Art Quotes
  Famous French female impressionist artist known for her portraits and domestic scenes.
• Robert Motherwell – – Art Quotes
  20th century American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.
• Edvard Munch – – Art Quotes
  Notable 20th century Norwegian painter and printmaker who created the iconic Scream painting.
• Takashi Murakami – – Art Quotes
  Famous Japanese sculptor, painter, printmaker, NFT artist and commercial artist.
• Albert Namatjira – – Art Quotes
  Famous Aboriginal Australian artist known for his watercolor landscape painting of the Australian outback.
• Yoshimoto Nara – – Art Quotes
  Well known Japanese painter and sculptor known for his cartoon-like portraits of children.
• Alice Neel – – Art Quotes
  Famous American feminist artist and portrait painter.
• Odd Nerdrum – – Art Quotes
  Famous Norwegian figurative painter using classical techniques and proponent of the kitsch art movement.
• Barnett Newman – – Art Quotes
  American abstract expressionist and color field painter known for his minimalist abstract paintings.
• Ben Nicholson – – Art Quotes
  Well known British painter and draftsman known for his still paintings and abstract reliefs.
• Isamu Noguchi – – Art Quotes
  Famous American sculptor, furniture designer and landscape architect.
• Sidney Nolan – – Art Quotes
  Renowned Australian artist famous for his Ned Kelly series of paintings depicting the bushranger and outlaw.
• Emil Nolde – – Art Quotes
  Popular German expressionist painter known for his bold landscapes, religious works, and flower paintings.
• Chris Ofili – – Art Quotes
  Contemporary British black artist known for his elephant dung works and for winning the Turner Prize.
• Georgia O’Keefe – – Art Quotes
  Notable American female artist famous for her erotic flower paintings and landscapes.
• Claus Oldenburg – – Art Quotes
  Swedish American sculptor and artist known for his soft sculptures and monumental outdoor sculptures.
• Margaret Olley – – Art Quotes
  Notable Australian painter and philanthropist known for her still life and home interior paintings.
• John Olsen – – Art Quotes
  Famous landscape painter and printmaker known for his pictures of the Australian outback.
• Max Pechstein – – Art Quotes
  German expressionist painter and printmaker associated with the Die Brücke or The Bridge art movement.
• Pablo Picasso – – Art Quotes
  One of the most famous artists of the 20th century, known for cubism and his wildly expressive paintings.
• Camille Pissarro – – Art Quotes
  Notable French artist involved in the Impressionist art movement.
• Jackson Pollock – – Art Quotes
  Famous American abstract expressionist painter known for his large drip paintings.
• Nicolas Poussin – – Art Quotes
  Notable French Baroque painter of religious scenes, mythology, and landscapes.
• Raphael – – Art Quotes
  Italian high renaissance painter, architect and draughtsman considered to be one of the greatest artists of all time.
• Robert Rauschenberg – – Art Quotes
  Famous American painter, printmaker and collagist known for his pop art inspired combine paintings.
• Lloyd Rees – – Art Quotes
  Notable Australian artist famous for his wonderful landscape paintings, drawings and prints.
• Paula Rego – – Art Quotes
  Famous Portuguese-British woman artist known for her figurative paintings, pastels and prints.
• Rembrandt van Rijn – – Art Quotes
  Very popular Dutch Golden Age master painter, draftsman and printmaker.
• Pierre Auguste Renoir – – Art Quotes
  Influential French impressionist painter famous for his paintings of big feminine women.
• Gerhard Richter – – Art Quotes
  Popular German painter of both abstract artworks and photorealistic paintings.
• Diego Rivera – – Art Quotes
  Famous Mexican painter and muralist married to the artist Frida Kahlo.
• Tom Roberts – – Art Quotes
  English born Australian painter associated with the Heidelberg School of painters and Australian Impressionism.
• Auguste Rodin – – Art Quotes
  Famous French sculptor known for great sculptures like The Thinker and The Kiss.
• James Rosenquist – – Art Quotes
  Famous American painter known for his large scale billboard influenced pop art paintings.
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti – – Art Quotes
  Notable English painter and poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood art movement.
• Susan Rothenberg – – Art Quotes
  Notable American contemporary painter and printmaker famous for her depictions of horses.
• Mark Rothko – – Art Quotes
  Latvian born American abstract expressionist painter known for his large color field paintings.
• Georges Rouault – – Art Quotes
  Famous French painter, watercolorist, draftsman, printmaker and religious artist known for his expressive clowns, prostitutes, religious figures and emotional portraits.
• Peter Paul Rubens – – Art Quotes
  Famous Flemish painter known for his voluptuous “Rubenesque” nudes and religious scenes.
• John Ruskin – – Art Quotes
  Notable British writer, art critic, philosopher, poet and essayist who promoted the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood artists.
• Robert Ryman – – Art Quotes
  American abstract painter known for his minimalist white square abstract paintings.
• Jenny Saville – – Art Quotes
  Popular British woman artist known for her large scale nude paintings and drawings.
• Egon Schiele – – Art Quotes
  Famous Austrian expressionist artist known for his portrait and figure drawings.
• Karl Schmidt-Rottluff – – Art Quotes
  Famous German expressionist painter and printmaker associated with the Bridge or the Die Brücke art movement.
• Georges Seurat – – Art Quotes
  Famous French pointillism artist associated with the Post-Impressionist art movement.
• Jeffrey Smart – – Art Quotes
  Famous Australian painter of urban landscapes and the people that live in them.
• Grace Cossington Smith – – Art Quotes
  Famous Australian female painter and one of the pioneering modernists in the country.
• Pierre Soulages – – Art Quotes
  Famous French abstract artist nicknamed the Painter of Black.
• Frank Stella – – Art Quotes
  Famous American abstract painter, printmaker and sculptor.
• Arthur Streeton – – Art Quotes
  Famous Australian impressionist painter associated with the Heidelberg School of artists.
• Wayne Thiebaud – – Art Quotes
  Popular American painter, draftsman and printmaker known for his colorful images of popular culture.
• Titian – – Art Quotes
  Famous Renaissance colorist painter of portraits and religious scenes.
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – – Art Quotes
  Famous French Post-Impressionist painter, draftsman and printmaker known for his Moulin Rouge artworks.
• JMW Turner – – Art Quotes
  Famous British painter and watercolorist known for his light filled seascapes and landscapes.
• Cy Twombly – – Art Quotes
  Famous American artist who also lived in Italy. Created expressive childlike drawings and paintings.
• Vincent van Gogh – – Art Quotes – – Biography
  Famous Dutch artist known for his wonderfully expressive paintings and turbulent life.
• Paolo Veronese – – Art Quotes
  Famous Venetian colorist painter associated with Mannerism and Renaissance art.
• Maurice de Vlaminck – – Art Quotes
  Famous French painter and printmaker associated with the Fauves or Wild Beasts.
• Edouard Vuillard – – Art Quotes
  Notable French painter associated with the Les Nabis group of artists in France.
• Andy Warhol – – Art Quotes – – Biography
  Famous American artist and leading pop artist known for his commercially driven prints and paintings.
• Ai Weiwei – – Art Quotes
  Famous Chinese conceptual artist and political activist.
• James McNeill Whistler – – Art Quotes
  Notable American portrait painter of the iconic “Whistler’s Mother” painting.
• Brett Whiteley – – Art Quotes – – Biography
  Famous Australian painter, printmaker and sculptor known for his sensual line.
• Fred Williams – – Art Quotes
  Influential Australian artist who painted the landscapes of Australia like no painter before him.
• Grant Wood – – Art Quotes
  Famous American realist or regionalist who created the iconic American Gothic painting.
• Christopher Wool – – Art Quotes
  Popular American abstract painter and sculptor known for his text paintings, gray abstract works and wire sculptures.
• Andrew Wyeth – – Art Quotes
  Famous American realist artist of portraits, interiors and the landscapes of Pennsylvania.

More on the List of Notable Artists

I’ll be updating this list of famous artists every week. Let me know in the comments below which artists are missing from the list. I’m only adding artists who are very well known so they’ve probably had a few art books published on them by now. See our big list of Famous Art Quotes where there’s one quotation or saying from each of the artists listed above.