Artist Quotes · Page 362

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in…

— Denis Diderot

“Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art.”

— Oscar Wilde

If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.

— Jimmy Iovine

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

— Richard Avedon

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

— Jeff Koons

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

— Bill Viola

In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

— Scott Avett

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

— Alex Katz

What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish.…

— Federico Fellini

I think with independent music, an artist gets to express himself and his creativity. I guess thats what the fans can relate…

— Harrdy Sandhu

There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians…

— Maynard James Keenan

“MY INVOLVEMENT IN CREATIVE WORK PURSUITS, IN PARTICULAR, SCULPTURE, IS A STATE OF MIND. IT IS A CONSCIOUSNESS, AN ACUTE AWARENESS OF…

— Chong Fah Cheong

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they…

— Edvard Munch

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents…

— Julian Casablancas

There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have…

— Chet Atkins

The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was…

— Lucio Russo

“I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.”

— Misha Glouberman

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

— John Frusciante

Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

— Walter J. Phillips

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

— Norman Maclean

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

— Camille Pissarro

I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be…

— Adele

Like Love, Art ties together all the great sacred traditions because they all used creative expression, or we wouldn't know about them.

— Alex Grey

Activism and art do go hand in hand, but I am an artist and an 'artivist' within that.

— Kiersey Clemons

Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.

— Jean Fautrier

“Personally, I believe that spending heavily on the decorations and display designs makes new clients out of random window shoppers”

— Anas O Hamshari B Sc

A man must be master of himself and master of his word to achieve the full realization of himself as an artist

— Robert Henri

It is a responsibility of an actor, artist to make sure to add justice to the art form.

— Regina Cassandra

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both…

— Leon Battista Alberti

It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.

— Camille Pissarro

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

— Roisin Murphy

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

— Joe Bradley

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to…

— Fran Lebowitz

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

— Igor Babailov

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

— Thomas Heatherwick

'The Disaster Artist' isn't really about 'The Room.' It's about friendship and how dreams can come true.

— Greg Sestero

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

— Willa Cather

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

— Sylvester Stallone