Artist Quotes · Page 381

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

— Yoko Ono

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

— Steven Pressfield

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

— Ariel Pink

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

— Wayne Thiebaud

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out…

— Zayn Malik

The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between…

— Robert Barry

I found very early on when I became a hip-hop artist that I loved telling stories. Actually, when I was trying to…

— Ben Drew

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max…

— Max Ernst

You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found…

— Friedrich Schiller

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would…

— Wyndham Lewis

I've got a brother who works for the Red Cross, another brother is working with the homeless in France, some who work…

— Tom Bateman

At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the…

— Millie Bobby Brown

The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of…

— Camille Pissarro

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

— James Whistler

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

— Woody Allen

I'm reclusive when it comes to me giving art away because I get real sensitive about that and critiques.

— J.I.D

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the…

— Oscar Wilde

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits…

— Olafur Eliasson

It wasn't a conscious decision to be bold or anything. It all depends on how different artists envision me.

— Amrita Rao

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

— Oscar Wilde

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without…

— John French Sloan

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And…

— Larry Sanders

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

— Hugh Walpole

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and…

— Jack Kirby

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a…

— Christopher Lasch

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

— Jerry Saltz

A cartoonist's style is created by weaknesses and personal restrictions as much as strengths.

— Barry Blitt

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

— Wayne Thiebaud

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

— Richard B. Garnett

I think 'Hamilton' has made me look at myself deeper as an artist and what I'm looking for as an artist.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

— Ice T

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.

— Devendra Banhart

“Art school is a small island of acceptance in a vast sea of disinterest.”

— Ted Orland

I never want to be one of those artists who feels untouchable and extraordinary. I have to be genuine.

— Clairo

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

— Matthew Collings

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

— Judy Chicago