Artist Quotes · Page 236

“hand. Here was a Catholic counterpart to Brooks and Warren, shifting the emphasis away from the artist and toward the work of…

— Paul Elie

I have a brother who's a schoolteacher, a sister who's a graphic artist, a brother who is a lawyer. I have a…

— Ronan Farrow

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that…

— John Dyer

Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

— Jello Biafra

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

— Roberto Cavalli

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

— Marjane Satrapi

“The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.”

— Murray Krieger

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

— Roger Scruton

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which…

— George Steiner

Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like…

— Ben Schnetzer

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When…

— Paul Klee

“To me, the true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In life, we have two segments: arts and science. We need science to make our lives easier. But what do we live…

— Pankaj Tripathi

I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at…

— Barry Ptolemy

I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an…

— Todd Walker

I've had people say to me, "Well, how do I start collecting artworks?" Well, you start by buying. Buy what you like,…

— Larry Gagosian

It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow.

— Mary Carroll Nelson

Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar, it makes you gag.

— Anonymous

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

— Dana Spiotta

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

— Camille Pissarro

Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.

— Michael Dirda

When I was a kid I loved wall paper it added a lot of fiber to my paint chips.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

— C. S. Lewis

I don't think that people should be confined to any particular aesthetic.

— Alexis Ren

“The real potential of becoming An Artist Nobody Likes was far, far scarier than remaining An Artist Nobody’s Heard Of.”

— Mark Manson

I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of…

— Brie Larson

“An artist can try and pretend he is not following rules, but let's remember that nature itself provides rules. Gravity for instance.”

— Kate Carlisle

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

— Rufus Wainwright

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

— Ian Buruma

The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.

— Rachael Price

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be…

— Edward Albee

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

— JR

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Edith would always believe art was for everyone, whether rich or poor, educated or not.”

— Lindsay Pollock

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

— Richard Artschwager

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

— Dave Holland

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein