Artist Quotes · Page 364

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

— Peter Schjeldahl

It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.

— Sebastian Bach

The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

— Romain Rolland

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

— Catherine Deneuve

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

— George Bernard Shaw

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big…

— Steven Saylor

Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

— Tyler Cowen

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

I knew I would always be an artist, but when you move to Nashville, this is a writer's town. I moved here…

— Brett Young

The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“When he worked on this painting, he felt sometimes as if he were flying, as if the world of galleries and parties…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“We all can’t paint like Van Gogh. We might not be the ones who found cure for cancer or invented flying shoes…

— Nesta Jojoe Erskine

“The individual artist is a medium for making representational and deeply meaningful symbols of the community’s collective consciousness, whether they are symbols…

— Inga Muscio

When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But…

— Jane Seymour

The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for…

— Sinead O'Connor

The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is…

— Donald Barthelme

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a…

— Romare Bearden

“Once you have a blank canvas in front of your eyes, you can think about how you want to paint it.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

As a creative, as an artist, I'm just excited when people want my stuff, and want to experience it.

— Randy Pitchford

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

— Ai Weiwei

“I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.”

— Anthony Liccione

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with…

— Pablo Picasso

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover…

— Adrian Tomine

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.

— e. e. cummings

I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors.

— Mini Grey

I still think that if one of Jim's masterpieces were downgraded to sell crap, I would get sick.

— John Densmore

I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the…

— Erykah Badu

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a beautifully sculpted masterpiece, it all depends upon what you do to the piece of wood in hands today.

— Pacquiao

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

— Melvin Maddocks

I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.

— Miguel

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

— Luc Tuymans

my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so…

— William Dobell

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the…

— Wassily Kandinsky

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

— Gloria Swanson

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

— John Ruskin

Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.

— Nas

You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

— John Keats

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

— Frederick Busch