Artist Quotes · Page 404

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be…

— Christopher Willard

My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.

— Ezra Furman

It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.

— Raheem DeVaughn

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

— Tom Wolfe

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

— Mary Baker Eddy

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

— Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in…

— Claudia Rankine

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

— Paul Klee

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to…

— Albert Einstein

I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to…

— Judy Chicago

I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but…

— Pat Metheny

Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do…

— Daveed Diggs

Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been…

— John Knox

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then,…

— Roy Lichtenstein

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all…

— Henry David Thoreau

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not…

— Jon Pareles

I don't think most people who listen to music are that interested in all the work that goes into making it. It's…

— Max Martin

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

— Terry Pratchett

“There was a glamor to it, a perfection and a completeness and a symmetry to it like Grecian art.”

— Magaret Mitchell

“The truth is, the more one knows about Art, the more one values Entertainment.”

— Jessica Zafra

I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different.

— Trixie Mattel

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

— Martin Firrell

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

— Toni Morrison

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

— Carl Maria von Weber

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

— Jeff Koons

The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.

— Nick Rhodes

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

— William Hogarth

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

— Robert Genn

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its…

— Barry McGee

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

— Anonymous

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he…

— David Lynch

If there's anything I can promise is that I'm gonna paint till the last breath.

— Heart Evangelista

'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.

— Simon Rattle

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

— Gertrude Stein

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from…

— Common

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

— John Tenniel

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love…

— Sean Scully

Every piece of art I've ever made was because I saw bad and could do better, or saw great and needed to…

— Anonymous

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.

— Bella Freud

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

— Josef Albers