Artist Quotes · Page 327

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

— Janet Fish

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear…

— Paul Klee

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

— Vincent Van Gogh

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.

— Russell Simmons

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

— Willem de Kooning

“We all have an artist within us; but not all of us help him to create wings on our bodies! Those who…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

— Fannie Hurst

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether…

— Ellar Coltrane

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads…

— Vincent Van Gogh

When people do something extraordinarily well, it's self-evident. It could be art. It could be a circus, whatever it is, where people…

— Gabe Polsky

All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed…

— Robert Zemeckis

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of…

— Ani DiFranco

Higher than every painter, higher than every sculptor and than all artists do I regard him who is skilled in the art…

— John Chrysostom

“One thing, however, did become clear to him—why so many perfect works of art did not please him at all, why they…

— Hermann Hesse

I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great…

— Malcolm Wilson

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

— Henri Michaux

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

— Alan Moore

I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.

— Johan Renck

Leger was not only the first artist I ever met but also the first pop artist, and he blew our minds.

— William Klein

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

— Frank Zappa

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

— Scilla Elworthy

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed…

— Tim Burton

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

— Cindy Sherman

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

— Alfred de Vigny

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

— Stephen Gardiner

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and…

— Asger Jorn

I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.

— Rhys Ifans

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

— Artie Shaw

Art is coming face to face with yourself. That's what's wrong with Benton. He came face to face with Michelangelo-- and he…

— Jackson Pollock

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

— Kate Nash

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

— Bill Griffith

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

— Quentin S. Crisp

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

— Drake

“I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry.”

— Jenim Dibie

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

— Walter J. Phillips

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to…

— Morris Graves

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

— Norman Rockwell

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

— David Galenson