Artist Quotes · Page 405

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

— Hans Haacke

When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.

— Kody Chamberlain

I was once a struggling artist, so I just want to help others, and provide my resources and connections and the people…

— apl.de.ap

All my artist buddies make fun of me for being such a sensitive human being.

— Thomas Rhett

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

— Peter Greenaway

Sam Shepard is - I didn't tell this to Sammy, but if I had to point to one artist that made me…

— Norbert Leo Butz

Collage is an important part of my everyday life. I always did it kind of secretly but then started my blog where…

— Laura Restrepo

“We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!”

— William T. Vollmann

“I always thought that if I suffered enough in service of Art, if I laid down my life to please the world,…

— Amelia Gray

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art,…

— Norm MacDonald

I never thought of myself as an impressionist, so when I do audition for voice-matching things, I have to work really hard…

— Tom Kenny

If you're a traveling artist, you probably experience insomnia at some point. You need things to be the right temperature, the right…

— Jon Hopkins

The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd…

— Arne Glimcher

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their…

— John Lennon

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just…

— Ian Anderson

“by watching illustrators draw, and award-winning author/illustrator Kevin Henkes graciously agreed to have a chat about The Year of Billy Miller AND…

— Anonymous

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

— Criss Jami

“The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about…

— Oscar Wilde

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

— Melissa Brown

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

— Robert Genn

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

— Simon de Pury

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

— Rabindranath Tagore

If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.

— Marko Djurdjevic

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

— Peggy Guggenheim

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

— Brian Aldiss

I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a…

— Jerry Pinkney

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

If someone wants to think what I do is somewhat artistic, that's fine, but I'm not looking to be necessarily labeled an…

— Ken Wahl

“Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

— Abe Ajay

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

— Amy Ray

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life…

— Brandon Boyd

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

— Frank Norris

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

— Tanya Saracho

I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

— Flume

“She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of…

— David Foenkinos

I feel like there's a lot of pressure on artists to be 100-percent organic all the time.

— Doja Cat

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

— Robert Hass

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

— Philip Pearlstein

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

— Alex Grey