Artist Quotes · Page 295

If there's anything I can promise is that I'm gonna paint till the last breath.

— Heart Evangelista

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

— Anonymous

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its…

— Barry McGee

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

— Robert Genn

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

— William Hogarth

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

— John Tenniel

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

— Gertrude Stein

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from…

— Common

Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content…

— Robert Hughes

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.'…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are…

— Rudolf Arnheim

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become…

— Pablo Picasso

People's live are expressed in little details…The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table…

— Charlotte Moss

People romanticize struggle and obscurity, and I get that, but it's a very one-dimensional argument to say that people who have money…

— Shepard Fairey

If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking…

— Catherine Yass

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built…

— Buenaventura Durruti

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love…

— Sean Scully

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

— Peter Greenaway

All my artist buddies make fun of me for being such a sensitive human being.

— Thomas Rhett

I was once a struggling artist, so I just want to help others, and provide my resources and connections and the people…

— apl.de.ap

When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.

— Kody Chamberlain

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

— Hans Haacke

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

— Josef Albers

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.

— Bella Freud

Every piece of art I've ever made was because I saw bad and could do better, or saw great and needed to…

— Anonymous

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

— Rabindranath Tagore

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

— Simon de Pury

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

— Criss Jami

“The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about…

— Oscar Wilde

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

— Melissa Brown

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

— Robert Genn

Collage is an important part of my everyday life. I always did it kind of secretly but then started my blog where…

— Laura Restrepo

“We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!”

— William T. Vollmann

Sam Shepard is - I didn't tell this to Sammy, but if I had to point to one artist that made me…

— Norbert Leo Butz

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

— Amy Ray

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

— Abe Ajay

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life…

— Brandon Boyd

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

— Frank Norris

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

If someone wants to think what I do is somewhat artistic, that's fine, but I'm not looking to be necessarily labeled an…

— Ken Wahl