Artist Quotes · Page 341

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

— Kehinde Wiley

What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's…

— LL Cool J

“We are all artists; painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

— Tobin Bell

I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.

— Thomas Hirschhorn

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

— Sidney Lumet

The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.

— Ralph Allen

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson,…

— Lynne Tillman

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they…

— Mark Ruffalo

So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case,…

— Audie Cornish

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies…

— Jeff Bridges

“The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those…

— Paul Caponigro

My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The…

— J. G. Ballard

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than…

— D. H. Lawrence

I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back.…

— Caitlin Rose

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

— J. B. Smoove

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

— Ariel Gore

I think people in the gay and straight worlds can get a sense of what it means to be an artist.

— Jill Eikenberry

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

— Alexander Pope

I always drew. I was, you know, the school artist. I was the person who made the posters for the prom. That's…

— Paula Scher

Artists will always depend on the brick-and-mortar ecosystem to establish authority and context.

— Alexander Gilkes

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get…

— Kreesha Turner

My obligation as an artist is to be completely honest and to also show people themselves through me; that's my job.

— Doechii

In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait…

— Marcel Duchamp

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

— Herbert Read

Acknowledgement and recognition from authoritative quarters are important to every artiste.

— Sridevi

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

— Albert Camus

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

— David Furnish

“Art is like fruit, and every tree is known by its fruit. Fruit reveals a lot about the tree from which it…

— Anonymous

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

— Constantin Brancusi

An artist's life is to lead and not to follow and you have to take those chances.

— Neha Bhasin

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint…

— Francisco Goya

“A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.”

— George Saunders

Half your battle is won when the writing is good, and then you as an artist bring your personality into it.

— Abhay Deol

If you wait until you're an adult to be exposed to the arts, it could seem elitist, it could seem out of…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

“All who have achieved excellence in art possess one thing in common; that is, a mind to be one with nature, throughout…

— Matsuo Bashō

I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist… I don't do that any more.

— Banksy