Artist Quotes · Page 359

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the…

— Harry Callahan

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

— E-40

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

— Aristotle

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your…

— Norman Mailer

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

— Louis L'Amour

“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.”

— Sanober Khan

I like art that's simple but feels kind of genius - like David Shrigley or David Hockney.

— Lolly Adefope

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

— Mary Cassatt

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say…

— Christopher Meloni

The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance…

— Lester Bangs

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example…

— Hans Haacke

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody…

— Alice Coltrane

Every single day, I wake up and take a glimpse of where I am now compared to where I was before, and…

— Mj Rodriguez

I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a…

— Rick Heinrichs

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just…

— Todd Haynes

The greatest work of art created first by god and then by man, is the creation of life. The whole process is…

— Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

— Rajneesh

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

— Rita Ora

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

— Arsene Wenger

A lot of artists are afraid to be themselves and afraid to tell people what it really is.

— Joyner Lucas

Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.

— Ruth Sawyer

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

— Don Ellis

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

— Joyce Cary

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

— John French Sloan

An artist who stops making art is committing suicide. Get off the couch and start painting again.

— Ramandeep Singh

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to…

— Ken Livingstone

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

— Rene Magritte

The most important factors for any artist, is the honesty towards one's craft, hard work and passion that guides them.

— Anupriya Goenka

“It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.”

— Ted Dekker

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

— Dwayne Hickman

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

— Kanye West

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

— Wayne Thiebaud

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

— Narada Michael Walden

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are…

— Yoko Ono

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

— Pablo Picasso

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

— Questlove

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white…

— Norbert Bisky

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

— Kingsley Amis