Artist Quotes · Page 367

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity…

— Yukio Mishima

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

— George Henry Lewes

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

— Don Ed Hardy

“The urge to draw near to the female silhouette resided deep in the ancient center of a man...”

— Kelly O'Connor McNees

In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.

— Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

— Douglas Lockwood

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

— Roy H. Williams

There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are…

— Fantastic Negrito

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to…

— Oscar Wilde

But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen…

— Fred Astaire

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I…

— Brian Selznick

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And…

— Marilyn Manson

Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice…

— Nicole Krauss

The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner…

— Eric Maisel

There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from…

— Adrienne Rich

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

— Ernst Fuchs

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.

— Steven Pressfield

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society,

— Samuel Barber

The vast masterpieces of art, business, science, and humanity were not constructed by practical people.

— Robin S. Sharma

I wanna grow and develop as an artist, and I feel like different kinds of collaborations can only help me in that…

— Sharon Van Etten

I believe all of us should have the freedom to have our personal take on how art affects us.

— Parvathy

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

— Isabelle Adjani

If an artist can take two minutes to tweet a fan and make his or her day, why wouldn't they take advantage…

— Cole Swindell

Michael Jackson is the greatest musical influence on me. He's my man. Musically, he is the one artist I want to be…

— Ginuwine

Other comedians got love for me. But don't get it twisted - I'm not a clown, I'm a comedian and work hard…

— Charlie Murphy

“What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures?”

— Umberto Eco

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

— Douglas Portway

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I think you have a responsibility as an artist to continually reach a hand out and try and inspire people.

— Tony Todd

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

— Steve Martin

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

— Jimmy Smits

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

— Tristan Tzara

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

— Anonymous

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

— Jessie J

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

— Terry Gross

I know what kind of artist I want to be, what I'm capable of, what I'm not capable of.

— Jeff Gutt

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is…

— Shirley Manson

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

— Tom Turner