Artist Quotes · Page 321

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

— Thomas Eakins

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem…

— Kelly Clarkson

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm a firm believer in that there are MCs and there are artists. I love' em both.

— Kurupt

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

— Damien Hirst

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

— Jean Rostand

“Art that puts itself in dependence on orthodoxy,even under the most progressive doctrine,is doomed to failure.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

One thing about Andy Warhol that was remarkable and also key to his widespread appeal is that he was so open! He…

— Bob Colacello

“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing…

— Eudora Welty

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,…

— Robert Hughes

I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things…

— Norman Reedus

Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of…

— Kris Kristofferson

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic…

— Antoni Tapies

I have a fairly unwieldy set of concerns that go into determining what I do in the paintings, such as the history…

— Philip Taaffe

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into…

— Mervyn Levy

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

— Gene Roddenberry

“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.”

— Jostein Gaarder

I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love…

— John Lennon

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of…

— Oscar Wilde

“In an art museum, you shall realise how banal and how ordinary the life outside!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

— Harold Rosenberg

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

— Pablo Picasso

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

— Wayne Thiebaud

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

— Ariel Pink

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

— Steven Pressfield

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

— Yoko Ono

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

— David R. Brower

I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out…

— Zayn Malik

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

— James Whistler

“at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of…

— Ray Bradbury

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

— Woody Allen

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

— Hugh Walpole

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and…

— Jack Kirby

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And…

— Larry Sanders