Artist Quotes · Page 258

“Personally, I believe that spending heavily on the decorations and display designs makes new clients out of random window shoppers”

— Anas O Hamshari B Sc

Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.

— Jean Fautrier

Activism and art do go hand in hand, but I am an artist and an 'artivist' within that.

— Kiersey Clemons

Like Love, Art ties together all the great sacred traditions because they all used creative expression, or we wouldn't know about them.

— Alex Grey

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both…

— Leon Battista Alberti

It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.

— Camille Pissarro

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

— Roisin Murphy

It is a responsibility of an actor, artist to make sure to add justice to the art form.

— Regina Cassandra

The creature from the black lagoon - I drew that creature almost every day, two, three times a day, for probably my…

— Guillermo del Toro

I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist…

— Garry Shandling

Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I…

— Baron Vaughn

Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more full filled person than they can ever be because theyre caught up in…

— Anonymous

I was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it…

— Marissa Nadler

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because…

— Patti Smith

I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last…

— Maximilian Schell

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

— Joe Bradley

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

— Willa Cather

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

— Sylvester Stallone

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

— Thomas Heatherwick

'The Disaster Artist' isn't really about 'The Room.' It's about friendship and how dreams can come true.

— Greg Sestero

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

— Igor Babailov

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to…

— Fran Lebowitz

As an artist, I am very proud of 'Ek Thi Daayan.' It was a supernatural flick and a huge risk, since not…

— Huma Qureshi

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

— Anna Pavlova

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

— Gary Wright

“Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.”

— Salvador Dalí

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a…

— Robert Irwin

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches…

— Robert Genn

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish...

— Herbert Read

Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.

— Rowan Atkinson

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

— Michael Steinhardt

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

— Steven Holl

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates…

— Ernest Becker

I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.

— Marcel Duchamp

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire…

— Ayn Rand

The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art.

— Takashi Murakami

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

— John James Audubon