Artist Quotes · Page 361

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to…

— Andy Goldsworthy

My friend was trying to draw me,at the end she failed at it,but I still like it.Comment if you like it too.

— Anonymous

It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false…

— Wassily Kandinsky

“There is nothing magical about the flip of the calendar, but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank…

— Jason Soroski

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

— John Berger

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

— Jerry Saltz

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

— Clement Greenberg

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

— Jasper Johns

Many writers and artists portrayed the poor sympathetically, and even fought on their behalf, but they themselves were not of that class.…

— Luc Sante

I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what…

— Anh Do

It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for…

— Eric Maisel

For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

As Buddhists, statues are more than simply pieces of stone to us. We believe the statue of the Buddha has a kind…

— Rithy Panh

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has…

— T.I

I think that for the five-year-old watching MTV right now, Lady Gaga is going to be an iconic person. In 20 years,…

— Beth Ditto

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not…

— Frank Gehry

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

— Simone Weil

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

— Oscar Wilde

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

— Adolph Gottlieb

I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.

— Ezra Furman

I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I…

— Michael Gungor

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

— Raymond Chandler

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.

— Robert Wilson

Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.

— Michael Arrington

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

— Keith Carter

The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a…

— La'Porsha Renae

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I'm the solo artist drummer that I wanted as a kid. I want to be what I never saw growing up.

— G Flip

I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad.

— Rajkumar Hirani

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience…

— John Banville

I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.

— Claude Monet

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

— Julia Cameron

There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the…

— Milo Ventimiglia

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

— Ernest Hemingway

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

— William Blake

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.

— Pierre Huyghe

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

— David Steindl-Rast

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other…

— Clement Greenberg

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

— Chip Kidd