Artist Quotes · Page 338

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.

— Jillian Mayer

It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with…

— Quentin Crisp

Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.

— Robert Warren

As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

— Frank Ocean

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

— Criss Jami

For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand. -Peeta

— Suzanne Collins

Through art, man has long transcended his flight, his conscience. Through war, he cancelled them.

— Mariana Fulger

When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for…

— Kurt Schwitters

He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He…

— Bob Colacello

Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave…

— David Hockney

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

— Ron White

If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't…

— John Lennon

The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it…

— George Inness

From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a…

— Arnold Gehlen

“I'm convinced that Theoretical Physicist is just another way of saying BS Artist.”

— J.C. Cassels

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy…

— Sarah Bernhardt

“Every day is a blank canvas to use our free will to create something beautiful for our Creator.”

— alisa hope wagner

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

— Donald Lambert

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

— Eddie Campbell

I toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd as a solo artist, many years ago. I love those guys.

— Paul Rodgers

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive…

— Frank Ocean

Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!

— William Gurstelle

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

— Mike Patton

I understand, as an artist as well as a producer, the need for there to be mystery and surprise.

— MNEK

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

— Edgar Degas

Most artists I know have gone through some period that forces them to get to the very core of who they are.

— Melody Gardot

“Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Only give me the chance to do…

— Barbara Sher

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

— Berthold Auerbach

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real…

— Erykah Badu

“[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

— Louise Bogan

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

— Charles Bukowski

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

— Julia Cameron

I've had a lot of opportunities to grow inside and out as a performer, artist, and a woman.

— Mickie James

Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.

— Walter Keane

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say,…

— Matthew McConaughey