Artist Quotes · Page 352

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

— Duane Michals

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

— Peter Paul Rubens

The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists.

— Maria Konnikova

For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

— Robert Genn

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark…

— Julie Mehretu

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

— Miguel

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

— Freddie Mercury

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

— Andy Warhol

I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like…

— Faith Evans

My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this…

— Iwan Rheon

If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people…

— Josh Trank

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a…

— Kanye West

I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of…

— Quentin Blake

“Plato's objection to the older art--that it is the imitation of a phantom and hence belongs to a sphere even lower than…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace…

— Virgil

The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in…

— Gloria Estefan

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

— Val Kilmer

“Furlough took him on a tour of the castle to demonstrate the art of scurrying.”

— Kate DiCamillo

One day I had an instinct to put on a kaftan and go out and sing. People liked it out of the…

— Demis Roussos

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we…

— Maya Angelou

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the…

— Shia LaBeouf

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and…

— Pat Oliphant

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range,and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

— Sarah Wayne Callies

“Art itself my be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's…

— Jennifer Birkett

“When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.”

— Gerard de Marigny

Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter best known for her self portraits, was an icon.

— Angela Scanlon

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

— Richard Blanco

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

— Voltaire

“Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.”

— Destiny Allison

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

— Harriet Monroe

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of…

— Steven Spielberg

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see…

— Henri Matisse

You wouldn't get rid of the Mona Lisa just because someone painted another picture of a woman smiling.

— Clive Rowe

I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an…

— Roisin Murphy

“I shouldn't be held responsible for my acts, since I was a political idiot, an artist who could not distinguish between reality…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Every single artist is inspired by artists who have come before them. It's sort of a fun, beautiful sharing process.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

— Tim O'Reilly

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

— Gustave Courbet