Artist Quotes · Page 286

I hate graffiti. It's not yours - don't draw on it! Is it that hard to comprehend?

— Chad Michael Murray

Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.

— Frederick Hart

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.

— Eva Mendes

“like the scorpion's question mark drawn in the pollen on the canvas of the sky and of our brains at midnight”

— Aimé Césaire

I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that…

— Matthea Harvey

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it…

— James Gurney

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

— Brice Marden

We communicate through art with symbols that transcend the boundaries of time and culture.

— Richard Clar

I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred…

— Edvard Munch

Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that…

— Alex da Kid

“...I knew he had something that so many of my other students were lacking... desire. Not just the desire to create because…

— Darian North

Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily…

— John Maeda

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of…

— Nathan Oliveira

Artists have their existential questions as human beings, and they address these questions in their works. But they are also thinking in…

— Gunnar Kvaran

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time…

— Janis Ian

I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is…

— Leonid Afremov

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality…

— John Maeda

The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are.

— Marilyn Manson

When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.

— Doug Aitken

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if…

— Egon Schiele

I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.

— Chance The Rapper

It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect.

— Adrian Younge

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very…

— Nell Irvin Painter

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

— Erro

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

— Daniel Gilbert

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

— Cornel West

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

— Robert Genn

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

— Michael Leunig

Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been…

— Ryan Murphy

“there was also a celebrated official sculptor whose works disfigured the whole of Paris,”

— Simone de Beauvoir

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see…

— Laurie Anderson

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more…

— Larry Ellison

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

— Robert Henri

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to…

— Susan Sarandon

“I keep scraping the canvas And painting him over again But he keeps slipping away”

— Edward Hirsch

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

— Julian Schnabel

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than…

— Anonymous

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

— Billy Cannon

I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

— Burton Silverman