Artist Quotes · Page 250

Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

— Robert Genn

“Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change”

— Benny Bellamacina

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

— Grace Hartigan

In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as…

— Katherine Dunn

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

— Antoni Tapies

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

— John Ciardi

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

— Juliette Lewis

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes…

— Saul Bellow

The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception.…

— Alex Grey

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time…

— Georg Baselitz

When I started out, the idea of wearing interesting clothes seemed to contradict the idea of being a serious artist. The first…

— Roisin Murphy

I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song…

— Benny Blanco

I'm not really an art collector - I'm more of a person who picks up things. I have pieces by people like…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

You could be the sexiest woman in the world, and if you can't sing, if you're not an artist and you can't…

— Maria Brink

I've been lucky enough to work with a make-up artist, Joel Harlow, who you can throw anything at. I said, "Joel, I…

— Johnny Depp

The art of life isnt controlling what happens, which is impossible; its using what happens.

— Bhaboo

It's so great when there's a catchy song that's fun and easy to listen to, but there's also a real artist behind…

— Jimmy O. Yang

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

— Heinrich Böll

If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have…

— Glen Keane

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

— Mark Rothko

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an…

— Bruce Lee

Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus.

— Lizz Wright

“For Jascha, artistic creation was the most private activity in the world: the soul's sacred and solitary communion with itself. (p. 244)”

— rebecca goldstein

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

— Graham Greene

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

— Hans Rookmaaker

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a…

— Tom Wolfe

I just want to be an artist. I like making music. I don't want to be the one tryin' to figure out…

— Paul Wall

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

— Carolina Kostner

“After all, what is art if not a true image and a criterion for the perfection of the human soul?”

— Dörthe Binkert

Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

— Paloma Faith

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

— Robert Osborne

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its…

— Jasper Johns

“He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.”

— O. Henry

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects…

— Theo van Doesburg

Artists can be themselves. They don't have to pretend to be somebody they're not.

— Chamillionaire

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

— Grace Hartigan

“Over this year, familiarity had done its usual work, picking off the gilded paint one scratch at a time.”

— Frances Hardinge

I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces.

— Frederick Varley

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

— Bennie Wallace