Artist Quotes · Page 401

“Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays”

— Dean Cavanagh

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

— Herbert Bayer

“Congratulations. You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them. I'll begin with you.”

— Paulo Coelho

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so…

— Megan Hart

“By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.”

— Scott McCloud

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they…

— Jay Sean

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

— Mark Rothko

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust

All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is,…

— Kimon Nicolaides

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes,…

— Anonymous

The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."...So, what…

— Jonathan Carroll

Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…

— David Foster Wallace

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to…

— Jeff Koons

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art…

— Donald Judd

Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do,…

— Martin Amis

Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of…

— Anonymous

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...

— Eric Maisel

I believe a person who designs for the sheer passion of creativity can do so across media - it is like any…

— Gauri Khan

I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I…

— Billy Porter

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

— William Webb

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

— David Lynch

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

— Allen Toussaint

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

— Natasha Rothwell

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular -…

— Jeffrey Deitch

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.

— Tulisa

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do…

— Paul Emsley

As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.

— Andy Grammer

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

— Wayne Thiebaud

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.

— Marilyn Manson

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

— Gloria Steinem

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

“Art is the weapon Your imagination is the ammunition Stay dirty, and stay dangerous Create and destroy as you see fit”

— Gerard Way

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

— Marilynne Robinson

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

— Moises Arias

“The art of the saints is the ability to draw good out of every situation, no matter how bitter or painful.”

— Marc Foley

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

— James Whistler