Artist Quotes · Page 226

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters,…

— Paul Gauguin

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

— Daniel Johnston

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

— Rudolf Arnheim

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be…

— Anton Chekhov

“The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your…

— David Bayles and Ted Orland

Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!

— George Rickey

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to…

— Anton Chekhov

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

— Ellsworth Kelly

It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish…

— E. J. Hughes

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life…

— Jose Carreras

“But if you know that you’ve got to be somewhere in half an hour, there’s no way you can achieve that. So…

— David Lynch

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as…

— Imani Hakim

The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He…

— Hans Hofmann

I'm just gonna keep growing as an artist, and I'm excited to work with different people and learn from all these other…

— Banks

The biggest challenge is self-financing 100% of everything. Recording costs, studio time, engineer fees, travel costs are all a part of the…

— Mya

I think for us, we don't feel like the future of music is in the act of being a record company. We…

— Zac Hanson

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

— Will Durant

For me, if I saw my favorite artist in the store, I would probably just tell them three words and walk away.

— Lil Peep

Art changed my life. I mean, I would say art saved me. I believe that it made me better at handling my…

— Kimberly Peirce

Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.

— Matt Squire

I enjoy singing but I lack the proper training to make it as a solo artist. Instead, I feel I've found my…

— Sanam Saeed

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a…

— Joseph Campbell

“Art is the one thing man creates not out of need or luxury; therefore, it is the purest essence of his individuality.”

— Anthony Paolucci

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

— Oscar Wilde

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

— Paul Cezanne

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

— Quincy Jones

That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.

— Jamila Woods

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

— Jeff Bridges

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

— Oscar Wilde

I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

— Tina Modotti

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

— Bruce Springsteen

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it…

— Yoko Ono

I don’t believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That’s bullshit.

— David Byrne

This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

— Robert Genn

“It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things…

— Walter Isaacson

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.

— Jennifer Young

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

— Epictetus

Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.

— Iman Shumpert

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

— Anselm Kiefer

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have…

— Deborah Solomon