Artist Quotes · Page 255

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

— Kanye West

“It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.”

— Ted Dekker

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

— Dwayne Hickman

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

— Rene Magritte

The most important factors for any artist, is the honesty towards one's craft, hard work and passion that guides them.

— Anupriya Goenka

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to…

— Ken Livingstone

An artist who stops making art is committing suicide. Get off the couch and start painting again.

— Ramandeep Singh

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

— Questlove

“Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't…

— Mary Stewart

Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm…

— Eric Avery

An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of…

— Peter London

I am here to enjoy life. I am not here to suffer. I am here to be a dreamer, to be an…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to…

— Ana Mendieta

“Most critics, fond of subservient art still make the whole depend upon a part. They talk of principles, but notions prize And…

— Alexander Pope

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true…

— Serj Tankian

For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an…

— Chrissie Hynde

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are…

— Yoko Ono

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

— Pablo Picasso

A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

— Narada Michael Walden

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

— Wayne Thiebaud

The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.

— Erwin Panofsky

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model...

— Paul Gauguin

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not…

— Joseph Jarman

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

— Kingsley Amis

“This is not drawing,' he cried, 'this is inspiration!' 'I had meant it to be drawing,' was Constable's characteristic answer.”

— Aldous Huxley

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white…

— Norbert Bisky

“I was trained to draw them to me. To find out what they were most ashamed of wanting, and to give it…

— Kit Rocha

I'm not just going to accept something because it's a lot of money. I'm an artist; content is incredibly important to me.

— Nina Dobrev

I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and…

— Jarod Kintz

There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's…

— William Butler Yeats

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

— Jan Tschichold

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

— Alexander Calder

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from…

— Jasper Johns

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

— Edouard Manet

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly…

— Adi Shankar

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

— Chath Piersath

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

— Lucian Freud

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

— John James Audubon