Artist Quotes · Page 340

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

“How extraordinary! I thought you would never care for anything but your art.” “He is all my art to me now.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country.”

— CS Lewis

I think 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster…

— Bari Weiss

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am…

— Hiroko Sakai

I decided I wanted to draw it, it's from blood on the dance floor...but yeah..:3

— I Drew It Its From BOTDF

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“I remember the first time I saw my favorite painting, how its fragile beauty caught my breath. And I thought if the…

— Lang Leav

The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply…

— David Rakoff

I don't know if many people realize that Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. He's not a dumb blond guy. This guy…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which…

— Henri Matisse

You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the…

— Cholly Atkins

A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em…

— George Jones

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as…

— Kay WalkingStick

I think the I Am album allowed me to show fans that I'm more than just a mixtape artist, who can make…

— Yo Gotti

Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

— Sara Genn

Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.

— Van Day Truex

There are artists who make their living now going to conventions... because now you can.

— George Perez

“I paint my dreams on a canvas of life with a smile of hope, An attempt to make my destiny a bit…

— Mysticald/Faiqa

What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and…

— Paul Valery

Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.

— Paul Gauguin

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

— Arthur Miller

Perfect form is the most important thing to have a perfect body, it's impossible to make a painting with a big brush

— Serge Nubret

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

— Frank Gehry

Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

I need more people to play Draw Something with, so add Jazzimini if you would like to play with me(: Lol, I…

— Anonymous

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

— Pablo Picasso

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

— Vivek Shraya

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

— Witold Gombrowicz

Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy…

— George W. Bush

Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.

— Joe Nichols

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

— Anonymous

Through the arts, you can impact upon people's attitudes, values, and understandings.

— Yolanda King

I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.

— Parker Posey

To me, being real is being yourself. You know, that's whether you're a pop artist or whatever.

— Tee Grizzley

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

— Pablo Picasso

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

— Robert Genn

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

— Pablo Picasso