Artist Quotes · Page 238

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make…

— Eric Maisel

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

— Chad Hurley

Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.

— Matt Mullenweg

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you…

— Dominique Swain

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

— Henry Miller

If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!

— L. S. Lowry

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. So live life to the fullest with no regrets, just learning experiences!

— Anonymous

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the…

— Chely Wright

I took what worked for me and found I had a system that others were interested in and seemed to work for…

— Joe R. Lansdale

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever…

— George Edward Woodberry

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms…

— Carl Jung

I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people…

— Lou Reed

My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much…

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although…

— Michio Kaku

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to…

— Balthus

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed…

— Antoine Fuqua

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

— Anonymous

“out of a shardstrewn madness I stand up and look upon my hand, how it draws the one and only circle”

— Paul Celan

I always wanted to be an acclaimed artist and to be at the top of my game.

— Manisha Koirala

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

— Joyce Johnson

I feel I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to…

— Madhuri Dixit Nene

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

— Junot Diaz

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to…

— Donald Judd

Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.

— Kurt Braunohler

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

— Prince

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

— Seth Godin

If I was strictly an artist, I'd have to learn to dance and get a shiny suit and stuff.

— J. J. Cale

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

— Iris Murdoch

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

— Malcolm Mclaren

I don't think I'm influencing younger artists - they're not trying to be me. But I don't say that in bitterness. I…

— Brad Paisley

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put…

— Erykah Badu

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

— Steven Levy

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to…

— Keith Shackleton

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

— Brandon Boyd

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

— Gunter Grass

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

— Gregory Maguire

My favorite artist is J. Cole. I like Kehlani a lot. Teyana Taylor is dope too.

— KiKi Layne

It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.

— Errol Morris

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were…

— Larry Rivers