Artist Quotes · Page 419

I'm from the pre-Pro Tools era where you had to meet up with the artist and go over things if you wanted…

— DJ Premier

It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to.

— Jeff Foxworthy

It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get…

— Lynn Nottage

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

— Bruce Lee

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

— John Dyer

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm…

— Frida Giannini

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic…

— Guido Molinari

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to…

— Beth Orton

Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products…

— Mark Klett

The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As an actor, you just like to be able to play as much range. I just want to be invisible. I want…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“It is not I who mix the colors but your own vision,' he answered. 'I only place them next to one another…

— Milorad Pavic

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way…

— Thom Yorke

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And it was as if I’d known that only here would those paints come into their own, and help me. That they…

— Jessie Burton

If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.

— Regina King

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

— Richard Ellmann

But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.

— E. M. Forster

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

— Emma Goldman

“I didn't originally intend to be an artist; I was much more interested in decorative arts--daily life, beautiful objects.”

— Helaine Posner

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

— Bethany Hamilton

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean…

— Amy Sherald

I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a…

— Willis Earl Beal

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

— Malvina Hoffman

“You may not make sense out of the incomprehensible, but you can make art.”

— John Dufress

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

— Hildegard of Bingen

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Paint it as you see it,' he had said in his lifetime. 'Even if it's a sunny day but you see darkness…

— Ruta Sepetys

Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.

— Roisin Murphy

I paint a picture of my pain for the world to see, could paint a picture of the game but my girl…

— Anonymous

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

— Max Beckmann

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

— John Updike

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

— Josef Albers

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

— Edward Burtynsky

“To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.”

— David Shields

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

— Philippe Claudel

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

— Marjane Satrapi