Artist Quotes · Page 375

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

— Fede Alvarez

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

— Anonymous

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

— Fernando Botero

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

— Kurt Vonnegut

We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.

— Kim Young-ha

To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic…

— Seth Godin

But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself,…

— Jeff Vespa

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete…

— Agnes Martin

Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the…

— Jack White

Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like…

— Ben Schnetzer

“I am the contrast. I am forever the crack in the window that lets the winter in. I am forever the moment…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which…

— George Steiner

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a…

— Cory Arcangel

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When…

— Paul Klee

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this…

— Nicole Appleton

I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process.

— Kehinde Wiley

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

— Lawrence Durrell

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot…

— Jason Alexander

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

— Billy Corgan

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

— Petrarch

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one once we grow up.

— Pablo Picasso

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other…

— Jackson Pollock

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

— Frank Ocean

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make…

— Diane Ackerman

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

— Thomas Mars

Art is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it!

— Rick Sutter

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must…

— Paola Antonelli

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

— Edgar Degas

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

— Joseph Beuys

“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

— Robert Crumb

It has been an honor to paint on stage and have my art grace the albums and stage sets of renowned musicians.

— Alex Grey

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

— Kaskade

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film…

— LeCrae

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

— J. W. N. Sullivan