Artist Quotes · Page 281

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

— Philip Guston

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.

— Mark Foster

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.

— Tennessee Williams

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

— Larry Gagosian

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human…

— Lin Yutang

I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.

— Yuna

When I work as an art director, I don't ask to see sketches from illustrators or photographers. I give them a basic…

— David Carson

Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in…

— Will Oldham

In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters…

— Francis Bacon

In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

I've always just done things that come naturally, and that's always been surrounding myself with artists that I respect and that are…

— Janina Gavankar

As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to…

— Jon Rubin

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register…

— Susan Minot

Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.

— Stacie Cunningham

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

— Scott McClanahan

I'm a lifelong martial artist and to have an arena to test my skills is essential for me.

— Dan Hardy

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

— Woody Allen

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

— John Legend

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

— Gina Bellman

Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.

— Charles James

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

— H. G. Wells

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

— Graham Sutherland

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only…

— Irving Stone

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied;…

— Charles F Kettering

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

— Viola Davis

“mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only”

— Lily King

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

— James Purdy

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

— Mary Augusta Ward

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

— Condola Rashad

Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

— Becky G

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

— John Ruskin

“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself…

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

— Pablo Picasso