Artist Quotes · Page 171

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

— Jonathan Pryce

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

— Georges Braque

I don't wanna be a solo artist. I wanna be in Styx.

— Dennis DeYoung

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

When an artist stops being a child, he stops being an artist.

— Isamu Noguchi

I refuse to do something that's not me as an artist.

— The-Dream

Art should be born from the materials.

— Jean Dubuffet

“But shitty human beings sometimes make great art.”

— Jerry Heller

“Before you paint someone poorly, check the brush — it may be carrying the colors of your own reflection.”

— Charmaine J Forde

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves…

— Shawn Colvin

“Let us paint depth, joy, and happiness onto the canvas of our lives, for it is a vital and gratifying endeavor. (Painting…

— Erik Pevernagie

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

— Anne Bradstreet

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

— Irving Stone

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move…

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

For every wacky postcard, there's a million people waiting to buy it, and for every $10 million of those things, there's one…

— Ricky Gervais

...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape…

— Andrea Gibson

Children are inspiring because they are open and a lot more intelligent than grown ups. They also have contagious playfulness and joy.…

— Olof Arnalds

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those…

— Oscar Wilde

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest…

— Hans Hofmann

If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the…

— Thomas Sowell

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men…

— Sherwood Anderson

Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain…

— Sonia Rykiel

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

— Paul Cezanne

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint...

— Keith Haring

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

— Marcel Duchamp

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

— Henry Moore

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

— David Guterson

I've found that limitations can be an artist's best friend sometimes.

— Michael Gungor

Art is a primal need - even under siege, especially under siege.

— Haris Pasovic

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?

— Woody Allen

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

— Pablo Picasso

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

— David Salle

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

— Jodie Foster

We will make love an art and we will love like artists.

— Marianne Williamson

Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?

— Mark Tobey

I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist.

— Ryan Murphy

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

— Harry Crews