Artist Quotes · Page 190

“Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move. ”

— Anonymous

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

— Louise Bogan

There is no art without contemplation.

— Robert Henri

I never draw except with brush and paint...

— Claude Monet

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

— Emile Zola

No art goes unmediated by other art.

— Robert Hughes

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

— William Blake

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

— Henri Nouwen

Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

— Julia Cameron

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

— Ice Cube

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

— Julia Cameron

“The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.”

— Oscar Wilde

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

— Agnes Martin

My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.

— Joan Mitchell

Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

— Charles Saatchi

Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from…

— Eduard Hanslick

I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I…

— Andrea Suarez Paz

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to…

— Jonathan Demme

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to…

— John Walford

I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a…

— Jerry Pinkney

“DeLillo presents art as the soundest magic against dread, the truest source of radiance and community. Albeit tentatively and ambiguously, Underworld suggests…

— Mark Osteen

“The convent of the sacred order of the Blessed Ladies of the Lobster had once been a dank and dark medieval castle…

— Jasper Fforde

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

— Andy Warhol

An artist portrays what his soul visualizes and feels

— Sonam Arora Luthra

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

— Max Eastman

“I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.”

— Anonymous

Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.

— Willem de Kooning

I reserve the right to be a participating citizen and artist.

— Parvathy

'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.

— Lindsey Buckingham

I give away thousands of paintings for free.

— Banksy

I think the first older artist I related to and loved was Bowie.

— Shooter Jennings

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

— Sebastian Horsley

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

— Anonymous

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

— Sigmar Polke

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

— Stephane Mallarme

Never trust the artist, trust the tale.

— D.H. Lawrence

I fantasized that I went to art school with the Beatles.

— Kyle Gass

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

— Jackson Pollock