Artist Quotes · Page 380

Just because I'm a recording artist doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Because I had to grow.

— Lizz Wright

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

— Maria Semple

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

That's the thing about being an artist: you never should settle, really.

— Ross Lynch

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

— Scott Kahn

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

— Rabindranath Tagore

“People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams.”

— Salomon Grimberg

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at…

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Combining a live event with the option of streaming means that everyone can enjoy the beauty, emotion and exuberance of watching their…

— Edith Bowman

Growing up, I just always doodled, which is the worst word for it. I would just draw things in class, get yelled…

— John Gourley

Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials…

— Karl Friedrich Schinkel

I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do…

— Joe Bradley

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting,…

— Lindsey Buckingham

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it…

— Jay-Z

The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my…

— Nigel Cooke

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

— Donald Judd

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

— Thomas Eakins

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small…

— Laurie Anderson

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

— Austin O'Malley

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way…

— Jackson Pollock

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

— Sigourney Weaver

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

— Jean Rostand

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

— Damien Hirst

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm a firm believer in that there are MCs and there are artists. I love' em both.

— Kurupt

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem…

— Kelly Clarkson

I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love…

— John Lennon

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

— Gene Roddenberry

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into…

— Mervyn Levy

“Art that puts itself in dependence on orthodoxy,even under the most progressive doctrine,is doomed to failure.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

— Pablo Picasso

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

— Harold Rosenberg

“In an art museum, you shall realise how banal and how ordinary the life outside!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of…

— Oscar Wilde

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

— David R. Brower