Artist Quotes · Page 328

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

— Oscar Wilde

Subodh Gupta works because his artistic vocabulary is firmly rooted in the vernacular of everyday India.

— David Linley

It's dangerous to be an artist and never change in a constantly changing world. The trick is to adapt without losing yourself.

— Anonymous

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

— Winslow Homer

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

— Robert Breault

“Purpose and passion - purpose is what will guide you to your best self and the passion will keep you there.”

— Nikki Rowe

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

— Linda Ronstadt

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time…

— John O'Donohue

I was actually dumbfounded by how some artists talked to each other. For example, it was a normal night at a bar,…

— David Salle

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

— Jerry Saltz

I have an exclusive gallery that takes care of the all of my artworks. I want to stay focused on the art…

— Invader

You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to…

— Tim Burton

The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to…

— Abbas Kiarostami

When you start a conversation about something that is under-discussed and you use art to convey it, I think that is incredibly…

— Alex Sharp

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way…

— Brian Eno

“If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there is anything holy,…

— Gustave Flaubert

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

— Sarah Bernhardt

I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom's hand and earn money.

— Mrunal Thakur

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

— Joyce Cary

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

— Trevor Paglen

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

— Walt Whitman

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

— Isaac Hanson

You've rarely got an artist that's not being chauffeured into the business by some huge-ass names.

— Pharoahe Monch

“And when I finished my story, Nesta merely stared at me for a long while before asking me to teach her how…

— Sarah J. Maas

For our Spring 2015 collection, I was inspired by the spirit of the artist Francoise Gilot.

— Tory Burch

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point…

— Paul Klee

“The artists of various sects, like the theologians of the various sects, mutually exclude and destroy themselves.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

— William Hazlitt

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent,…

— Georges Rodenbach

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

— Damian Loeb

We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

— Alan Sparhawk

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

— Peter D. Kramer

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

— Theophile Gautier

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

— Keith Urban

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

— Lukas Foss

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

— Nadeem Aslam

“If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.”

— Evelyn Waugh

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

— David Bayles

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

— Garry Kasparov

I think the most important thing any artist can do is to constantly push themselves and improve their craft.

— Ami Vitale