Artist Quotes · Page 332

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do…

— Richard Schmid

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

— Chris Rock

We're trying to give back to artists of colour and make the journey for them a little easier.

— Mena Massoud

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

— Antony Gormley

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

— Georg Baselitz

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

— Sol LeWitt

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

— Michele Cassou

“Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to…

— Isaac Marion

There are usually three sections of people who like my work. There are those who like them aesthetically. They see beauty in…

— Seph Lawless

I am an artist, and I have a lot more to offer than just being a one-dimensional character, and I think our…

— Rusev

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there…

— Damien Hirst

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his…

— Herbert Spencer

I have always been inclined towards art, but hadn't painted in a long time. I restarted it during the lockdown, by making…

— Madhura Naik

I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment…

— Lee Krasner

Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What…

— Chris Sullivan

I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh,…

— Wolf Kahn

If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.

— Robert Pinsky

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

— Tom Ford

Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

— Camille Paglia

“My earnest wish is to paint in true colors the goodness of God to me, and the depth of my own ingratitude”

— Madame Guyon

My own view is that the arts are neither superior nor inferior to anything else that goes on in schools.

— Michael Rosen

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

— Nile Rodgers

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

— Josef Albers

Instead of making a resolution to learn how to code in 2013, you might make a resolution to learn how to draw.

— Auren Hoffman

Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation,

— Donald Judd

All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in…

— R.A. Dickey

“...there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

At this point, in 2008, if you put out a book, a movie, or write a verse, paint a painting, it should…

— Black Thought

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

— Kiki Smith

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by,…

— John Bellamy Foster

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

— Lana Del Rey

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just…

— Domenico Gnoli

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

— Quentin Tarantino

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to…

— Junot Diaz

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived…

— Iris Murdoch

I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist.

— Shaggy

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is…

— Bruno Dumont