Artist Quotes · Page 418

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's…

— George Sutherland

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go…

— John Kindness

“I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there.”

— Anonymous

There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.

— Kimon Nicolaides

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

— Zaha Hadid

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

— Isamu Noguchi

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them…

— Chuck Jones

I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not…

— Eve Babitz

My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour…

— Ralph Goings

The message is that if you believe in what you create, it's enjoyable and people will follow. The talented mangaka should know…

— Tite Kubo

Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to…

— Ari Shapiro

I feel so lucky. When an actor that has been struggling for so long makes the transition into being an actor full-time,…

— Steve Zissis

Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them…

— La'Porsha Renae

Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better…

— Brian Grazer

I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll…

— Claude Monet

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

— Pablo Picasso

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my…

— Martha Wainwright

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

— Ed Sheeran

Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.

— Brad Holland

“An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:”

— John le Carré

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

— Morgan Spurlock

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

— Claude Monet

It's not easy for an artist, especially for a girl. But you know, you just have to work very hard, persist, trust…

— Natti Natasha

Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture.

— John Marin

I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not…

— George W. Bush

“You’re trying to paint things as either black or white,” he said. “As either good or evil. It’s never that neat.”

— Diane Chamberlain

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

— Cornelia Parker

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

— George Eliot

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

— Jeremy Begbie

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

— Marcel Dzama

“Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.”

— Amit Kalantri

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

— Georges Rouault

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

— Ernst Haas

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

— Anonymous

Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

— Sara Genn

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in…

— Jane Urquhart

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't…

— Rod Taylor

Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when…

— Eric Maisel