Artist Quotes · Page 291

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that…

— Ossie Davis

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though…

— James Whistler

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to…

— Ezra Pound

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

— Alan Moore

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

— Nathan Goldstein

I grew up being an artist, but also rock-climbing and traveling the world and teaching my kids.

— Jason Momoa

The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must…

— Porochista Khakpour

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art.…

— Chris Martin

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted,…

— Henri Bergson

“A young artist's career is a matter of claiming a place for oneself, of saying, "I am here." Having gone through that…

— Wafaa Bilal

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some…

— Richard Steele

“Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to…

— Alain de Botton

“In its vulgar way, a painstaking piece of work, although one must always remember—something often forgotten today—that because things are generally known,…

— Anthony Powell

Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.

— Eric Maisel

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

— Eric Maisel

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

— Petra Collins

I think that BENEE definitely has this newfound confidence in me where I love to do whatever I want and have fun…

— Benee

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.

— Larry Gagosian

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

— Egon Friedell

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

— Simone Weil

“We all have our alloted portions of black and white paint; how we lay it on is a question of temperament.”

— Ewart Grogan

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

— Pablo Picasso

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

— Jamie Hewlett

It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.

— Ian Harding

Just as sport can, art has the capacity to cross so many boundaries like education, race and religion.

— Susie Wolff

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

— Laz Alonso

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

— Jennifer Estep

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

— Kara DioGuardi

I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.

— Marcel Duchamp

Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

— Franz Grillparzer

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

— Bruno Munari

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

— Matthew Quick

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going…

— Michelangelo

Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

— Wayne Coyne

One thing I can bring to this as second lady is making people aware of what art therapy is and how it…

— Karen Pence