Artist Quotes · Page 232

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

— David Luiz

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

— Stacy Martin

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

— Ruth Asawa

It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

— Washed Out

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to…

— Carlos Fuentes

Life is a color of your dreams passion experiences. Fling paint it at daily.

— Anonymous

When I draw the scene that I'd been dreaming about or had always wanted to draw, that is the time that I'm…

— Tite Kubo

As a martial artist you have to be truthful about yourself so you can approach your training properly and get better.

— Frank Mir

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you…

— Van Morrison

I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a…

— Jeremy Podeswa

Every artist is a walking business. Your marketing tools are your headshots and your reel. That's what people see that's what your…

— Jay Ellis

“A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it:…

— Steve Turner

I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic…

— James Marsters

I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love,…

— Sarah Kay

What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are,…

— Pittacus Lore

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

— Jerzy Kosinski

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Art could state very little - it's whole business is to evoke responses.”

— Dodie Smith

Kollywood is my parent film industry. It was here that I was born as an actress and grew as an artist.

— Asin

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

— Kevin Bacon

When I'm working with an artist, my job is to make their vision come to life.

— Ludwig Goransson

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

— Barnett Newman

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white…

— Vivek Shraya

Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.

— Michael Redd

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

— Patricia Piccinini

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

— Robert Gober

I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the…

— Nas

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

— Mary Wigman

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

— Mason Cooley

People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that,…

— Kevin Macdonald

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

— Bruce Lee

“One person connect you to your art. You cant connect with that person unless you show up.”

— Matthew Settle

I have to say, that's pretty typical for artists, kind of embarrassingly typical for artists that everything is all about selection.

— David Salle

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

— R. Kelly

“The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.”

— Antonin Carême

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

— Tracey Emin

“We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies--but this is very different.”

— David Foster Wallace

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he…

— Romare Bearden