Artist Quotes · Page 351

It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where…

— Kelly Ripa

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

— Jackson Pollock

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

— Irving Stone

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

— George Tooker

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

— Michael Kimmelman

All the art that's in my house is my own, which is nice because I never have to worry about buying it.

— Carly Chaikin

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

— John Ruskin

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

— Robert Rauschenberg

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take…

— Jodi Picoult

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of…

— Eric Church

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different…

— Charles Saatchi

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of…

— David Bailey

Frankly, in order for us to have a healthier arts eco-system funders need to insulate their relationships with artists from the influence…

— Jon Rubin

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about…

— Lady Gaga

“What is the difference between “creator” and “craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing— ex…

— Pope John Paul II

One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide…

— Julie Taymor

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

— William Faulkner

When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps…

— Keifer Thompson

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's…

— Branford Marsalis

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

— Bill Watterson

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

— Tulisa

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

— Tina Weymouth

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...

— Paul Gauguin

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

— Kanye West

I don't know if I'm necessarily a role model, but hopefully I can inspire any artist - Latin or otherwise - to…

— Michael Pena

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid…

— Anais Nin

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and…

— Edvard Munch

“Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists?”

— Leguin, Ursula

In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so…

— Roger Scruton

“Wherever we are, whatever we’re doing and wherever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world…

— Ryan Holiday

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

— Roger Scruton

All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

— Amitava Kumar

Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art.

— Richard Wollheim

Let's try and create scenes that are about something... About something deeper than this ashtray.

— Martin de Maat

Whatever the download thing has done to the game, you as an artist can get yourself out there to the masses, off…

— Ashley Thomas

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

— Marian Engel

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a…

— Kay WalkingStick

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder…

— William Faulkner