Artist Quotes · Page 374

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

— Kerry James Marshall

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by…

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

I really enjoy house painting - especially the trim work. People think I'm crazy, but it's more fun than using the roller…

— James Doohan

Ill draw you a picture, a picture with a twist. Ill draw it with a razor blade. Ill draw it on my…

— Amber

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing… Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“There's a hurried intensity in the strokes--you can see where he scratched into the wet paint with the end of the brush.…

— Nicole Krauss

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think…

— Chuck Close

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This…

— Ray Charles

I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of…

— Betty Churcher

I went to an art high school in Washington D.C., and I majored in visual art. When I started there, I was…

— Njena Reddd Foxxx

I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during…

— Peter Capaldi

It's easy to get into habitual ways of drawing things and I'm as much guilty of this as anyone else - after…

— Bryan Talbot

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

— Todd Haynes

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest…

— Thomas King

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the…

— Common

“Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting future generations.”

— Steven Magee

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

— Dasha Zhukova

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

— Henri Matisse

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

— Antony Gormley

“O you who honor art and science both, who are these souls whose dignity has kept their way of being, separate from…

— Dante Canto IV Inferno

Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.

— Mike Svob

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

— Brandi Carlile

The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist.

— Armand Trousseau

“Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.”

— Matthew Gallaway

I think martial arts, in general, shaped my wrestling style. I think I grew up as a martial artist as a kid.

— Samoa Joe

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method…

— Claude Monet

No artist gets work through an agency and it's only working artists who keep getting more work.

— Sana Khan

I'm not like most artists or most CEOs - I'm a CEO first, then an artist.

— Young Dolph

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

— Pierre Alechinsky

“She wanted children and considered having them a "privilege," but art also "was a privilege given to me and I had to…

— Jan Greenberg

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does…

— Leo Howard

“It was a work of art. It was better than that. It was a work of craft.”

— Terry Pratchett

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

— Salvador Dali

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

— Pierre Soulages