Artist Quotes · Page 303

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon…

— Rudolph Valentino

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

— Eugene Ionesco

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.

— Alexandra Stoddard

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

— Paul Cezanne

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

— Robyn

“How much distance should there be between art and artist? I’d say no more than a lifetime.”

— Jarod Kintz

“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent”

— Oscar Wilde

I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, 'My kid could do this,' and 'We don’t get it. What’s modern art? Blah,…

— John Baldessari

Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and…

— Gabrielle Roth

Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors…

— John C. Reilly

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories,…

— Seth Godin

To be a songwriter-singer means the songs come from deep within, and you treat them as an artist, with that much respect.…

— Roy Orbison

Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short…

— Tom Paulin

The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present…

— Hollis Alpert

I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna…

— Matthew Ramsey

“The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.”

— Dominic Smith

I am not a big artist myself. I am, I guess, a somewhat successful songwriter now, but I think that my value…

— Tobias Forge

I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper.

— Redman

I am on a mural in Belfast with 'Floating up the Lagan in a bubble' on it. You know you have made…

— Adrian Dunbar

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

— Alexander Eliot

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

— Steven Soderbergh

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

— Roy Lichtenstein

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel…

— T. Allen Lawson

To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.

— Wil Wheaton

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

— Takeshi Kitano

“All great art is almost never received well initially; don't quit before the world opens its eyes.”

— Gregor Collins

Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial…

— Ma Yansong

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective…

— Ziggy Marley

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an…

— W. Earl Brown

If you're an artist and you have dreams don't stop fighting because dreams really do come true.

— Dahvie Vanity

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

— Bruce Pavitt

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

— Paul G

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not…

— Marjane Satrapi

“I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy. I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.”

— Lana Del Rey

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

— Joseph Conrad

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

— Glenn Ligon

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

— Gerhard Richter

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual…

— Wes Nisker