Artist Quotes · Page 356

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

— Anonymous

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design…

— Gabriel Basso

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

— Kenya Barris

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

— Steve Jobs

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

— Henry James

Calling an engineer an applied scientist is like calling an artistic painter an applied pigment chemist

— Ritu Ghatourey

All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.

— Billy Cannon

No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long…

— Milton Resnick

A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers…

— Robert Motherwell

My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a…

— Claude Monet

But you know, we have more hits than you can possibly think about. One of my personal favorite artists is the wonderful…

— Colin Mochrie

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do.…

— Vaclav Havel

I thought for a long time that I was going to be a pop artist. It was around 18-19 that I started…

— Marina and the Diamonds

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different,…

— Ludovico Einaudi

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at…

— Pablo Picasso

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

— Demis Roussos

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating…

— Seth Godin

When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were…

— Walter Darby Bannard

There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

— David Hockney

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it…

— Bernard Berenson

If an artist can manage his career, well, that is half the battle to becoming successful.

— Martin Dansky

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would…

— Romola Garai

Obviously there's so many great artists out there that I'd love to work with.

— MO

Fans are half of an artiste... without someone to appreciate him, an artiste is nothing.

— Fawad Khan

You want to be able to change as an artist, keep your privacy, but also keep the special thing that drew people…

— Rachel Sennott

I feel much more comfortable as an artist collaborating with others because I feel more mature.

— Alan Tudyk

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather…

— Brian Eno

The artist can know all the technique in the world, but if he feels nothing, it will mean nothing.

— Chen Chi

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

— Friedrich Schiller

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

— Molly Crabapple

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

— Robert Breault

It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into…

— Robert Motherwell

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

— John Updike

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit.

— Hiroko Sakai

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian