Artist Quotes · Page 365

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's…

— Robert Pinsky

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

— Steven Pressfield

The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can…

— Peter Cook

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

— Nelsan Ellis

Be creative with life, you are the artist and the world is your picture.

— Victoria Dawn Monks

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

— Brian Celio

Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

— Robert Genn

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

— William Faulkner

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an…

— Roland Barthes

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting…

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

2015 has been a crazy year for me, and Spotify have supported me right from the start. It's an honour to be…

— Kygo

Collecting contemporary art I started with some of the younger artists. Although, having a son who's an artist, I was hesitant-I think…

— Laurence Graff

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves,…

— Henri Bergson

I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it.…

— Cy Twombly

I always say this to the young chefs and mean it: The customer is excited, he says you are an artist, but…

— Andre Soltner

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

— Scott Kahn

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

— Dean Cavanagh

“But I want to paint you. That’s how artists come to possess things beyond their means, can you understand that?”

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

— Amy Sillman

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

— Marcel Proust

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

— John Ciardi

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

— Grace Hartigan

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

— Antoni Tapies

In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as…

— Katherine Dunn

“Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change”

— Benny Bellamacina

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

— Juliette Lewis

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

— Mark Rothko

It's so great when there's a catchy song that's fun and easy to listen to, but there's also a real artist behind…

— Jimmy O. Yang

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

— Heinrich Böll

If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have…

— Glen Keane

The art of life isnt controlling what happens, which is impossible; its using what happens.

— Bhaboo

I just want to be an artist. I like making music. I don't want to be the one tryin' to figure out…

— Paul Wall

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

— Hans Rookmaaker

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

— Graham Greene

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a…

— Tom Wolfe

“For Jascha, artistic creation was the most private activity in the world: the soul's sacred and solitary communion with itself. (p. 244)”

— rebecca goldstein

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an…

— Bruce Lee