Artist Quotes · Page 320

If you succeed at all, you find yourself suddenly working with artists whose work you don't just admire but you deeply love.

— Gail Simone

Artists from all over the world have had a lot of positive influence on me. Their works always inspire me.

— Jackson Wang

“The sculptor is master of time; he can change his subjects forward or back.”

— Irving Stone

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it…

— Bridget Riley

'The Disaster Artist' book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there's something so rewarding about creating something from…

— Greg Sestero

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

— Charles Rosin

So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was…

— Warren MacKenzie

“Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.”

— Anne Rice

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human…

— Seth Godin

I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river…

— Aldo Leopold

Tagore once said- art has to be beautiful, but before that, it has to be truthful. Now, what is truth? There is…

— Ritwik Ghatak

People love a conflict. Artistic conflict is not like that at all. It's just wanting your own space, it's not wanting what…

— Grant Hart

It's a great thing if you're a creative person and have some kind of acting or dance or singing, any art. I…

— Jenna Dewan

“An artist makes the world her world. An artist makes her world the world. For a little while. For as long as…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to…

— Daya

Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but…

— Kid Cudi

Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like…

— Immortal Technique

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

— Esperanza Spalding

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in…

— Edward Bond

I have always believed that an artiste needs to respond to a story first. One has to feel it in order to…

— Dia Mirza

The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

— Gary Hume

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a…

— Serj Tankian

Nature alone is illimitably rich, and nature alone forms the great artist.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Just because I'm a recording artist doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Because I had to grow.

— Lizz Wright

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

— Edmund Wilson

“Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.”

— Liz Rideal

I paint on and off, not very regularly. But since I was in school, I had an inclination for it.

— Bhumika Chawla

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in…

— John Heartfield

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

— Donald Judd

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams.”

— Salomon Grimberg

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

— Rabindranath Tagore

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

— Scott Kahn

That's the thing about being an artist: you never should settle, really.

— Ross Lynch

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

— Maria Semple

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

— Sigourney Weaver

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

— Austin O'Malley

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way…

— Jackson Pollock

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small…

— Laurie Anderson