Artist Quotes · Page 251

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

— Leonor Fini

“Specifically, artists and the powerful have the ability to turn ordinary lives into dreams.”

— Psixomaxaristw

Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries.

— Michael Tolcher

I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my…

— Cornelia Parker

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

— Jean Patou

“An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.”

— Jean Cocteau

I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.

— Joe Russo

My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.

— Shelby Lynne

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I'm trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability…

— Nipsey Hussle

Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras,…

— Dennis Stock

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty…

— Jonathan Santlofer

I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not…

— Jakob Dylan

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying…

— Philip Guston

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art…

— Carl Andre

We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ…

— Anonymous

I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in…

— Terry Mosher

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

— Kanye West

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

— Charles Saatchi

I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

— Ne-Yo

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

— Nas

“It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.”

— Will Cuppy

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

— Bela Bartok

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's…

— Robert Mankoff

There is something poetic about a 39-year-old man winning New Artist of the Year.

— Jelly Roll

In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.

— Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

— George Henry Lewes

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

— Don Ed Hardy

“The urge to draw near to the female silhouette resided deep in the ancient center of a man...”

— Kelly O'Connor McNees

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity…

— Yukio Mishima

The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort…

— Tom Scholz

There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.

— Alison Moyet

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

— Roy H. Williams

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

— Douglas Lockwood

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society,

— Samuel Barber

There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are…

— Fantastic Negrito

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

— Ernst Fuchs

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.

— Steven Pressfield

Other comedians got love for me. But don't get it twisted - I'm not a clown, I'm a comedian and work hard…

— Charlie Murphy