Artist Quotes · Page 229

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what…

— David Bowie

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.

— Henry Moore

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more…

— David Foster Wallace

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

— Thomas Cole

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an…

— Edward Gorey

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to…

— Pierre Soulages

“A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.”

— Amit Kalantri

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things…

— Wayne Thiebaud

“...a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a…

— Clive Bell

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the…

— Robert A Heinlein

“I would venture a guess that an artist concentrating wholly unself-consciously, wholly thrown into his work, is incapable of producing pornography.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression…

— Claes Oldenburg

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Fiindca asta e misiunea artistului : sa-si depaseasca propriile limite. Un artist care vrea putin si reuseste sa obtina putinul acela e…

— Paulo Coelho

After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the…

— Jerry Saltz

The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the…

— Walter J. Phillips

At art school you realize that in order to stay engaged you have to ignore the critics, good and bad.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I started work as a makeup artist at the BBC, which was a vibrant, exciting and caring place.

— Dave Myers

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

— Guido Molinari

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is...a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.

— Aaron Howard

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

— Ai Weiwei

I don't think it pays to just be an artist, particularly for kids of color - there will be fewer roles.

— Malik Yoba

Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do…

— Alanis Morissette

All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.

— Henry Austin Dobson

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

— Sol LeWitt

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

— Howard Hodgkin

Life is a one-way street, and if you could paint it. I'd draw myself going in the right direction.

— Gnarls Barkley

“The artist is a constructor of mirrors through which humanity can recognize their own beauty.”

— Manuela Nicolini

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

— Edna Longley

I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

— William Blake

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

— Irving Stone

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

— Quentin Tarantino

Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it's worth a lot.

— Afeni Shakur

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just…

— K. D. Lang

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

— Emma Anderson

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

— Jack Levine

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

— Thomas A. Edison

I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last.

— Lucien Smith

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

— Howard Jacobson