Artist Quotes · Page 241

I think I have something special. I am confident that I am going to be an artist.

— Rosalia

“Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.”

— Laini Taylor

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

— Amiri Baraka

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

— Francis Schaeffer

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

— Jil Sander

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

— Seth

“I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple…

— Henri Matisse

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better…

— Bill Crawford

Growing up, I just always doodled, which is the worst word for it. I would just draw things in class, get yelled…

— John Gourley

Combining a live event with the option of streaming means that everyone can enjoy the beauty, emotion and exuberance of watching their…

— Edith Bowman

“The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling…

— Virginia Lee

That would be something I would stress the most to any artist - is, number one, don't ever allow, you know, success…

— Beth Hart

Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal…

— Leopold Auer

You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found…

— Friedrich Schiller

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max…

— Max Ernst

I've got a brother who works for the Red Cross, another brother is working with the homeless in France, some who work…

— Tom Bateman

I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3…

— William Klein

“Great art might not be popular, but it is always born out of non-linear, non-formulaic thinking.”

— Abhaidev

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

— Romare Bearden

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for…

— Billy Joel

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few...

— LeRoy Neiman

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which…

— Henry Rollins

This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are…

— Wolfgang Pauli

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

— Raymond Chandler

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

— Nicholas Meyer

A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone.

— Jancee Dunn

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master…

— Kehinde Wiley

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

— Edith Wharton

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

— Nina Simone

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

— Eric Drooker

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

— Georg Baselitz

“Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.”

— Nikki Rowe

I didn't watch 'The A-Team' movie. I'm an artist. You can't re-paint a Rembrandt. You can't duplicate that; I don't care who…

— Mr. T

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is…

— Pablo Picasso

“Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Art was, for Poe, the only method by which one could penetrate the shapeless empirical world in the search for order, and”

— Edgar Allan Poe

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

— Rachel Stevens

I'm probably the biggest show-off in the world. But I also happen to be an artist. You can be both, you know.

— Keith Allen

I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes…

— Stephen Huneck