Artist Quotes · Page 389

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

— Leo Steinberg

The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or…

— Gerald Moor

“An individual artist needs only a thousand true fans in her tribe. It's enough.”

— Seth Godin

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

— Woody Allen

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if…

— Arthur Erickson

You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.

— Richard Armitage

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

— Agnes Repplier

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

— Bridget Riley

There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even…

— Hugh Hardy

I've got such great people around me. They don't really care if they make me angry. A lot of teams, they're afraid…

— Justin Bieber

I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their…

— Jerry Saltz

It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that…

— Clement Greenberg

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in…

— Walker Evans

“An I Q cannot measure artistic ability. A potential Picasso may be a flop at objective vocabulary or number tests. An I…

— Madeleine L'Engle

They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV…

— Sherman Alexie

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was…

— Jeffrey Wright

When I was a kid, trying not to color outside of the lines was my biggest problem.

— Ritu Ghatourey

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

— Marcel Duchamp

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

— Ondi Timoner

Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!

— Matt Squire

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

— Patricia Briggs

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

— Paul Smith

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

— Mary Heilmann

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

— Annaleigh Ashford

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

— Lukas Foss

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

— Oscar Wilde

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

— Pierre de Ronsard

“I wanted to paint a picture, in indelible print, across the canvass of my heart.”

— Suman Pokhrel

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

— Ralph Steadman

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

— Marcel Duchamp

Life's a canvas you're an artist, Paint a picture of a garden then go and marvel at the harvest you created from…

— Anonymous

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

— Paul Mellon

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

— Elia Kazan

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

— Solomon R. Guggenheim

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

— Walter Isaacson

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

— Anonymous

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had…

— Gauri Khan

“Artist or no-artist, I can't pass up a piece of fried chicken when I see one.”

— Jack Kerouac