Artist Quotes · Page 212

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

— Carroll O'Connor

I have always loved painting and I did it from a very young age.

— Brad Mondo

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

— Stephane Mallarme

Never trust the artist, trust the tale.

— D.H. Lawrence

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

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

— Sigmar Polke

As an artist, it is heartwarming to see other artists appreciate your work by making covers and renditions of your original track.

— Momina Mustehsan

We tried to take different roads to get to where we wanted to go to satisfy our creativity as artists.

— B-Real

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

— Edvard Munch

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

— Billy Corgan

It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.

— Ryan Hurd

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its…

— Jimenez Lai

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

— Margaret Atwood

I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm…

— Gallagher

“When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work.…

— Walter Isaacson

For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a…

— Wilfrid Sheed

I'm not sure I'm going to be that type of artist but I do love cultural icons. Like Solange has been really…

— NAO

Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because…

— Robert Adams

“I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and…

— George Saunders

Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat...…

— John Gruber

I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring…

— Bernie Ecclestone

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

— Anonymous

An artist portrays what his soul visualizes and feels

— Sonam Arora Luthra

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

— Andy Warhol

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

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

— Willem de Kooning

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

— Anonymous

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

— Max Eastman

I give away thousands of paintings for free.

— Banksy

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

All art is concerned with coming into being.

— Aristotle

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

— Boris Pasternak

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

— Marc Jacobs

“Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

— Anonymous