Artist Quotes · Page 260

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with…

— Pablo Picasso

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover…

— Adrian Tomine

“I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.”

— Anthony Liccione

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

— Luc Tuymans

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

— Melvin Maddocks

I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.

— Miguel

Life is a beautifully sculpted masterpiece, it all depends upon what you do to the piece of wood in hands today.

— Pacquiao

I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more…

— Nicki Minaj

A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in…

— Jacob Epstein

A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the…

— Ellsworth Kelly

Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is…

— Oliviero Toscani

“Your impression of me is different than my impression of me. But that’s OK, because your impression is impressionistic, like a Monet…

— Jarod Kintz

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example…

— Anonymous

I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records…

— Rico Love

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,…

— George Stillman Hillard

No artist from my industry has ever supported me, but all technicians have been on my side.

— Shilpa Shinde

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

— Noah Taylor

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

— Arshile Gorky

An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered.

— Porter Robinson

The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very…

— Selena

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

— Gustave Courbet

I've always enjoyed watching makeup artists - but I'd like to go to the extreme and do monster makeup in movies.

— Niki Taylor

Every single artist is inspired by artists who have come before them. It's sort of a fun, beautiful sharing process.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

— Tim O'Reilly

I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an…

— Roisin Murphy

“I shouldn't be held responsible for my acts, since I was a political idiot, an artist who could not distinguish between reality…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

— Andrew Delbanco

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

— Sinead O'Connor

“She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face.”

— Amit Kalantri

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

— Edward Abbey

Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can…

— Fred Wilson

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

— Milan Kundera

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in…

— William Hazlitt

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

— Marina Abramovic

Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.

— John Kani

Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

— Danny Fox

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump…

— John Dyer Baizley

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until…

— Franz Kline