Artist Quotes · Page 249

“Artist gets a closer look at the God. Artists possess positive and positive is another word of God.”

— RAGHUVEER MAGANTI

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

— Jackson Pollock

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does,…

— Anonymous

Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.

— Joe Bonamassa

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

— Salma Hayek

I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.

— Emmet Gowin

Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch…

— Matt Squire

I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.

— Mohanlal

Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod…

— Paul Di Filippo

In the future, an artist will be able to perform for the entire world in one date. For the fan, it will…

— Troy Carter

There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even…

— Hugh Hardy

“You think that I am naive, but it is you who are naive. You have no idea what is happening inside of…

— Witold Gombrowicz

I am of the opinion that there are artists and non-artists. I think that this is the way it always was and…

— Anselm Kiefer

n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was…

— William Dean Howells

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like…

— Amanda Palmer

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on…

— Neil Gaiman

You should be able to deliver what the artist you're working with wants.

— Scott Storch

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

— Banksy

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

— Lawren Harris

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

— John Ruskin

Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.

— Nas

You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

— John Keats

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

— Gloria Swanson

my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so…

— William Dobell

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

— Brian Celio

Be creative with life, you are the artist and the world is your picture.

— Victoria Dawn Monks

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

— Nelsan Ellis

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

— Steven Pressfield

The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can…

— Peter Cook

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

— Frederick Busch

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's…

— Robert Pinsky

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

— Marcel Proust

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

— Amy Sillman

After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt

“But I want to paint you. That’s how artists come to possess things beyond their means, can you understand that?”

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

— Dean Cavanagh

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

— William Faulkner

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

— Scott Kahn