Artist Quotes · Page 412

I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and…

— Stella Vine

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my…

— Bil Keane

It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the…

— Soulja Boy

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

— Marina Abramovic

I think there's no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you…

— David Draiman

the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

— Edgar Degas

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his…

— Orson Welles

“I’d stumbled upon the inner sanctuary of a woman who loved the world. Loved the faces of people she saw. Loved the…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a…

— Cecilia Bartoli

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldn’t change because then I wouldn’t be the person that I am today.…

— Jay Park

What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“No respect for beauty – that was characteristic of today’s society. The works of the great masters were at most employed as…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by…

— Marcel Duchamp

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

— Bette Davis

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

— Auguste Rodin

“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.

— Natalia Makarova

That's what you want to do as an actor and as an artist: move an audience.

— Michael McElhatton

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

— Matthew Collings

How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

— Anne Clark

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

— Jeff Dunham

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

— Eudora Welty

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.

— Pierre Schaeffer

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

— Paul Klee

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

— James Surowiecki

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

— Meher Baba

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.

— Zack Snyder

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

— Wendell Pierce

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

— Janet Fitch

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the…

— Akira Toriyama

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

— Michel de Montaigne

I know how to lead a room, but I also know how to take direction and be a contributor as an artist.

— Colman Domingo

The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher…

— Beth Hart

“To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint. ”

— Leon Cooper

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.

— Sean Scully