Artist Quotes · Page 388

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

— Auguste Rodin

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

— Sol LeWitt

“Live is likes a canvas.. you are the one who put the colour on that.. so put it properly or you may…

— AidaKhalida

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

— Peter Wright

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

— Laura Harris

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great…

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I…

— Toyin Odutola

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Donald Trump is a world-class con artist. He conned all these people that signed up for Trump University. Now he's trying to…

— Marco Rubio

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack…

— Chuck Klosterman

“We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that…

— Robert Henri

Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participating artists.

— Yasumasa Morimura

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being…

— Willie Nelson

I always wanted to be an artist of some sort and I was really shy growing up, so performing didn't really seem…

— Alison Sudol

Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod…

— Paul Di Filippo

In the future, an artist will be able to perform for the entire world in one date. For the fan, it will…

— Troy Carter

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in…

— Pablo Picasso

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

— John Cassavetes

If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.

— Matisyahu

My uncle is a martial artist, and in the early '80s, he made a kung fu flick with director Charlie Ahearn.

— Michael Che

“...et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)”

— Ovid

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or…

— Michael Buble

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of…

— Juliana Hatfield

The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

— Robert Motherwell

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

— George Bernard Shaw

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

— David Hockney

“A monochrome Jackson Pollock," Jane says, and then tells Tiny, "We gotta bolt. This band is like a root canal sans painkiller".”

— John Green

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

— Pablo Picasso

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

— John F. Kennedy

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

— William Morris

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know…

— Alison Lurie

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

— Jack Kirby

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

— Joe Bradley

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

— Barbra Streisand

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

— Burton Raffel

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

— Oscar Wilde

Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.

— William Thorsell