Artist Quotes · Page 307

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

— Robert Genn

They say life is like art and the world is your canvas, whether your picture be good or bad it will always…

— Anonymous

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

— Christopher Priest

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

— Virgil Abloh

I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.

— Warren MacKenzie

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

— Gene Black

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

— Jerry Harrison

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's a very scary time for a lot of people; they feel scared to speak up. There's so much controversy even speaking…

— Lauren Jauregui

There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first…

— William Morris Hunt

Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs…

— Jerry Goldsmith

There's something about TV shows and the format that becomes a bit more personal. People watch two, three in a row before…

— Jay Baruchel

I've never been an artist that really got into fluff songs. I like songs that have substance to them. I think sometimes…

— Tracy Lawrence

Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in…

— Robert Genn

“He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed…

— Ian Rankin

“There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if…

— Tasha Golden

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

— Nate Lowman

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit…

— Louis Riel

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

— Arthur Wesley Dow

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting…

— Richard Artschwager

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

— Gustave Flaubert

“With the holy touch of art, human life has become less lonely and more esthetical!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Rhetoric makes use of nature’s secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their most beautiful work is…

— Giacomo Casanova

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

— Morgan Parker

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

— Francis Bacon

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind...

— Leon Battista Alberti

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

— John Ruskin

When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

— Natasha Leggero

“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining,…

— Willa Cather

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

— Eric Fischl

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I…

— Arshile Gorky

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your…

— N. K. Jemisin

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

— Nicolas Berggruen

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

— David Hockney

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

— Dave Barry

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

— Val Kilmer

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.

— Dizzee Rascal

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

— Rudolf Nureyev

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

— Joseph Campbell