Artist Quotes · Page 417

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until…

— David Hockney

There's a lot of heart to Bob's work that doesn't always get recognized because of all of the sensuality, dark statements and…

— Ann Reinking

This kind of art - the dystopic future kind of art - is designed to make you uncomfortable.

— Laeta Kalogridis

I think that it's much easier for a recording artist to become an actor than for an actor to become a recording…

— Zachary Levi

Security and care of the objects is paramount. Arty composition comes after everything is safe from greasy fingers, humidity or excess light.

— Grayson Perry

Never give an artist like me carte blanche: he would think it's simply toilet paper.

— Maurizio Cattelan

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of…

— Edward Herrmann

Like a bathroom singer, I am a closet artist, but you need time to paint.

— Sushmita Sen

If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much…

— Auguste Rodin

I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make…

— Nita Engle

The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about…

— Susan Davis

A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And…

— Rajneesh

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man…

— Aristotle

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs…

— Shana Alexander

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the…

— August Wilson

Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the…

— Antoni Tapies

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of…

— H. L. Mencken

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

— Calvin Miller

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

— Claude Monet

I think art was the one thing my high school didn't give. And I think that was probably one reason why I…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Only he can be an artist who has a religion all his own - an original way of viewing infinity.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

— T. S. Eliot

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of…

— Bruno Munari

I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted…

— James Turrell

What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

— Brendan Gleeson

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I…

— Brian Selznick

I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I…

— Owen Pallett

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

— Shelley Duvall

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

— Sanford Meisner

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

— Henry Miller

“For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you are getting the story right.”

— Ed Catmull

I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

— Lady Gaga

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I…

— Vernon Davis

I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.

— Kris Wu

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

— Jeff Koons

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

— Roger Verge

“Merry Patricia Wilding was sitting on a cobblestone wall, sketching three rutabagas and daydreaming about the unicorn.”

— Laura London