Artist Quotes · Page 415

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

— Robyn Hitchcock

There's a Diebenkorn painting - 'Ocean Park No. 68' - that is the color of a swimming pool and always reminds me…

— Tory Burch

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

— Jerry Saltz

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for…

— Edith Sitwell

I was poor. I struggled big time, living hand to mouth so I could be the kind of artist I want to…

— Natalie Prass

I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more…

— Jeff Koons

I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists.

— Rayvon Owen

“Degenerates are not always criminals, anarchists, and pronounced lunatics; They are often authors and artists.”

— Max Nordau

With the Internet today, it is possible to do some mixed media things where you can write about an artist and link…

— Robert Hilburn

“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell…

— Douglas Wilson

My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they…

— Mary Karr

When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but…

— Michel Faber

An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting…

— Keith Johnstone

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at…

— Ai Weiwei

Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art.…

— Gerald Stern

“When art is not only a matter of inspiring colors and techniques but a permanent questioning of life.”

— Latino Professional Network

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

— David Lynch

This is what I made for u but I put it on my wall lol B.L.A do u like it babe :)…

— Brianna Ramos

When people say 'overnight success' I say 'oooo that was a long night...'

— Milana May

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression…

— Frida Kahlo

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

— Adepero Oduye

“Unveil the shade of your soul through the paint brush of your life. Let the colors run true, let the canvas be…

— Shady Grace

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him…

— John Lennon

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist…

— May Sarton

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

— Armand Hammer

Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.

— Lucien Bourjeily

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

— David Foster Wallace

I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.

— Chase Jarvis

To pay attention to flattery or criticism is a waste of time for artists.

— John McLaughlin

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.

— James De La Vega

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

— Phoebe Gloeckner

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

— Man Ray

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

— Clive Bell

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.

— Seth MacFarlane

I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all…

— Jack White

I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.

— Joe Budden

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.

— Rita Ackermann