Artist Quotes · Page 293

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

— Eudora Welty

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

— Michel de Montaigne

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the…

— Akira Toriyama

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

— Janet Fitch

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

— Wendell Pierce

“To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint. ”

— Leon Cooper

The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher…

— Beth Hart

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the…

— Takashi Murakami

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out…

— Joseph Plaskett

“I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot…

— Paul Tournier

“To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of art. Theater, fiction, horror stories, love stories. This is…

— Amanda Palmer

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean…

— Allen Tate

There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she…

— David Steindl-Rast

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation…

— Marcel Duchamp

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just…

— Gloria Estefan

I know how to lead a room, but I also know how to take direction and be a contributor as an artist.

— Colman Domingo

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

— Francis Ford Coppola

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from…

— Kanye West

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead…

— Richard Pousette-Dart

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

— Chris Martin

All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.

— John Maeda

“A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...”

— Anonymous

I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

— Nick Hornby

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

— Aristotle

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

— Fernando Perez

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

— M.I.A

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

— Helena Rubinstein

The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social…

— Thomas Jefferson

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have…

— Charley Pride

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

— Asger Jorn

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

— Ralph Richardson

We could sit back and be complacent and do the formula that we know works. To an artist, that gets old to…

— B-Real

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

— Elaine de Kooning

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

— Gustave Courbet

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and…

— Sam Francis

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

— Irwin Shaw