Artist Quotes · Page 174

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

— David Lean

Art is the objectification of feeling.

— Herman Melville

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

— Pablo Picasso

I like to think of myself as a true artist.

— Luke James

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

— Edward Weston

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

— Andrew Stanton

I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing.

— Eduardo Chillida

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm an artist, but, as I get older, I really want to do philanthropic work and help people.

— Andie MacDowell

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

— Ralph Allen

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

— Tom Morello

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

— Georges Simenon

I kind of got popular as a spoken word artist, and I ended up doing some ads and audio stuff for Nike…

— Dante Basco

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

— Ansel Adams

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit…

— Franz Marc

The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily…

— Travis Knight

As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus.…

— Mary Pope Osborne

I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and…

— Madonna Ciccone

What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I don't really have a problem with the pain of life. Perhaps that is because I am a martial artist and I…

— Frederick Lenz

I'm a little nervous about saying anything about the artist, because it kind of sticks him right between the eyes, but he…

— Edie Sedgwick

“Our lives are constantly changing. Different things become relevant at different times in our lives. We are motivated by our changing sensibilities.…

— Sarah Thornton

Fashion went from being much more rarefied to being more accessible. Now everything is changing in the art world, too: even the…

— Cynthia Rowley

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and…

— Anne Truitt

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

— Daniel Clowes

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

— Akira Toriyama

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

There is never a question of what to paint but only how to paint.

— Robert Ryman

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

— Philip James Bailey

I was planning on being a starving artist.

— Stephen Hillenburg

The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.

— Julia Cameron

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

— Amy Sherald

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.

— Henry Moore

“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote. The”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Art for me is the science of freedom.

— Joseph Beuys

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Ten watercolors were made from that star.”

— Joan Didion

The object of art is to give life shape.

— Anonymous

“That’s the thing about art. It really helps to be unhappy.”

— Jonathan Hull

Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow