Artist Quotes · Page 393

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

— Roy Lichtenstein

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

— Steven Soderbergh

Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial…

— Ma Yansong

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective…

— Ziggy Marley

“All great art is almost never received well initially; don't quit before the world opens its eyes.”

— Gregor Collins

To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.

— Wil Wheaton

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

— Takeshi Kitano

If you're an artist and you have dreams don't stop fighting because dreams really do come true.

— Dahvie Vanity

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying…

— Bob Mould

Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line:…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

We've all been there - you find something moving, you commission a painting. I know one wall of my living room is…

— Nish Kumar

For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the…

— Lewis Hyde

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young…

— Isaac Stern

The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked…

— Max Delbruck

“When Michelangelo came along a generation after the original fresco masters, he took on the almost-impossible task of linking the whole Sistine…

— Benjamin Blech

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an…

— W. Earl Brown

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

— Gerhard Richter

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

— Glenn Ligon

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

— Joseph Conrad

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not…

— Marjane Satrapi

“I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy. I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.”

— Lana Del Rey

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

— Paul G

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

— Bruce Pavitt

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,…

— John Gardner

I'm really about seeing people and art for what they are. Like, seeing people as humans and seeing art.

— Rich Brian

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could…

— Damien Hirst

Street art, unlike graffiti, adds to the environment and is a positive experience for the artist and community.

— Ben Eine

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual…

— Wes Nisker

“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

— John David Washington

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for…

— Tyga

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

— David Gilmour

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to…

— Rolf Harris

You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis.

— Dave Barry

Even as an art teacher and someone very involved in the arts, I never knew what art therapy even was.

— Karen Pence

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

— Josh O'Connor

Four Tet, a.k.a. Kieran Hebden, is a U.K. electronica artist whose diverse tastes have helped fuel a lengthy discography.

— Anthony Fantano

“Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that…

— Lucien Carr

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

— Joshua L. Goldberg