Artist Quotes · Page 313

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

— Robert Genn

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough…

— Claude Monet

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

— Oscar Wilde

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

— Franz Werfel

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

— Andre Holland

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

— Olivier Megaton

“A painting is more than the sum of the parts,” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

I enjoy getting an artist at the beginning stages, and then I'm able to pull out something that is so pure and…

— Laurieann Gibson

There's a particular sensitivity required to be an artist, and a certain vulnerability, perhaps, and also, somewhere between, you're in your body…

— Michael Leunig

“The scenic vistas of North Carolina and Tennessee make you feel like you're looking at a work of art, but crossing through…

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

I've definitely learned more about myself through experimentation over the years - which products work best for my skin and tricks from…

— Ashley Greene

I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh.…

— Vijender Singh

I want to touch the charts and I want to get the accolades and I want to do the artist thing, and…

— Doechii

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they…

— Fred Armisen

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

— Stephen Gardiner

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

— Pierre Bonnard

'Rent' resonates with people across generations because it's really great art.

— Jordan Fisher

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.

— Ben Eine

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

— Billy Childish

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

— Vivienne Westwood

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

— Anthony Caro

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

— Doseone

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.

— Jack White

I work with an amazing team - I have a stylist and a hairdresser and make-up artist who are always wondering what…

— Netta Barzilai

I live life. I experience things. I go through ups and downs, and so I express them creatively and artistically.

— Sky Blu

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

— Robert Genn

I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for…

— Charles Clarke

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

— Henrik Vibskov

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to…

— Michael Haneke

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

— Henry David Thoreau

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

I can paint what's goin through my mind, racing against myself but I'm a couple steps behind.

— Drake

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

“PAINT it! It's called Passion,Ambition,Inspiration,Notion and Transformation.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from…

— Henry Moore