Artist Quotes · Page 231

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

— Nigel Cooke

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

— Richard P. Feynman

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?

— William S. Burroughs

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

— Shahzia Sikander

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

— Joan Miro

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

— Liz Phair

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

— Robert Browning

Being an artist is like being an athlete. You have to be in there every day, keeping in shape. You have to…

— Lawrence Jordan

I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the…

— Marina Abramovic

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and…

— James Ivory

“I can't remember the name of the piece, or the artist. Maybe it wasn't even an artwork. Why must I automatically assume…

— Sara Baume

I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if…

— Jonathan Groff

The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way…

— Jonathan Meades

“It is the right of art to consider an impression valid simply as an impression and to accept it as something entire…

— Leo Baeck

“Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he…

— Aleister Crowley

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers,…

— Eva Zeisel

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

— Henry James

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

— Michelangelo

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

— Anais Nin

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The more you look at great art of any kind, you'll see that there's this thread running through all of it.

— Chris Thile

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

— Rex Brandt

In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it…

— Tim Curry

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

— Marina and the Diamonds

What I don't like is when people feel like they can box an artist into who they think an artist should be.

— Saweetie

Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination.

— Rza

“Essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton describes art as “an apothecary for the soul.”

— Arianna Huffington

As an artist you always want to challenge yourself, but as you get older you want to bring the audience with you…

— Dennis DeYoung

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

— Tony Campolo

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

— Samuel West

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness…

— Ansel Adams

I wanted to be a prosthetic makeup artist after watching 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'.

— Mathew Horne

“Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate…

— Scott Nicholson

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

— Romare Bearden

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

— Andy Warhol