Artist Quotes · Page 301

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to…

— Julie Taymor

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it.…

— Meg Cabot

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

— Henri Matisse

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate…

— Wesley Snipes

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

— John Ruskin

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a…

— Lou Reed

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people…

— Takeshi Kitano

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they…

— Jay Sean

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a…

— e. e. cummings

“..Abigail's singing while I painted. How we laughed so when no one was watching. And how finding a black-eyed Susan tucked into…

— Adriana Mather

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history…

— Teju Cole

“The same thing is true of the experience of art. Here the scholarly research pursued by the "science of art" is aware…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things…

— Yaacov Agam

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow…

— Tyga

“Despite what he calls the “paradoxical ascent of social practice art in a socially bankrupt world,” and “an inversion of artistic taste”…

— Gregory Sholette

To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so…

— Megan Hart

“By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.”

— Scott McCloud

“Congratulations. You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them. I'll begin with you.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays”

— Dean Cavanagh

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

— Herbert Bayer

I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes…

— Ryan McGinness

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

— Mark Rothko

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

— Allen Toussaint

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

— David Lynch

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

— William Webb

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I…

— Billy Porter

I believe a person who designs for the sheer passion of creativity can do so across media - it is like any…

— Gauri Khan

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...

— Eric Maisel

As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.

— Andy Grammer

I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.

— Tulisa

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do…

— Paul Emsley

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular -…

— Jeffrey Deitch

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

— Natasha Rothwell

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Art is the weapon Your imagination is the ammunition Stay dirty, and stay dangerous Create and destroy as you see fit”

— Gerard Way