Artist Quotes · Page 230

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

— Michel de Montaigne

A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.

— Oliver $

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

— Charles de Lint

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

— Terry Gross

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

— Paul Klee

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

— Oliver Goldsmith

For me, being an artist was a thing that, like, rich people in New York and L.A. and Paris and Rome did.…

— Cord Jefferson

I believe that, in our industry, overexposure tends to create problems for artists, so fortunately, I have been exposed but not overexposed.

— Nora Fatehi

I am pretty bad at doing my makeup myself, so these days, I am learning from a makeup artist. I treat my…

— Nayeon

I do believe that everyone is an artist...however, how we potray our images, i.e. charactors, is how people will see us. Be…

— Thabang Tshabalala

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as…

— Evelyn Waugh

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting…

— Dave Malloy

I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being…

— Stephen Hough

My first professional job was with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I started out in an educational touring play and eventually starred on their…

— Colman Domingo

As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is…

— Bethany Cosentino

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard…

— David Riesman

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

— Henri Matisse

If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.

— Demetri Martin

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

— Voltaire

I've always been such an album-driven artist that I never really stopped to think about how cool it would be to just…

— Kyle

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

— Howard Hodgkin

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

— Amanda Palmer

“Exploration is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is…

— John R. Stilgoe

“We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been…

— Sevyn Streeter

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

— Elisabeth Hasselbeck

“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”

— Jessie Fothergill

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of…

— Maria Callas

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

— Steven Soderbergh

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

— Ezra Pound

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

— Kenneth Clark

“Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.”

— John Berger

“It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.”

— Anne Rice

I hope to make the process of producing my take of the Biennial a transparent and interesting one for artists.

— Michelle Grabner

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

— William Butler Yeats

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

— Eric Fischl

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

— Huston Smith

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit…

— Annie Dillard

All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

— Erykah Badu

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

— Ad Reinhardt