Artist Quotes · Page 423

In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very…

— Bridget Riley

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

— Eddie Cahill

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of…

— Anonymous

“From Portrait of a Landscape I think art only exists when it's being made. It's like a flower. Once picked, it starts…

— Daniel D. Watkins

I often find that people want to paint themselves one colour - like, 'I'm the baddie' - and they've always got this…

— Toby Kebbell

Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters?

— Henri Matisse

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post…

— Deborah Kass

“Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.”

— Nuno Roque

I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of…

— Shepard Fairey

[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite…

— Walker Percy

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its…

— Leon Trotsky

I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't…

— Shirley Manson

Sometimes I will draw people and they will move away too quickly for me to finish what I wanted, and it is…

— Jason Polan

The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make…

— Anne Frank

“The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice…

— Joanna Russ

Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos…

— Robert Anton Wilson

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

— Gerald Scarfe

My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada…

— Kurt Schwitters

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches…

— Anonymous

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

— Hilary Rosen

I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had…

— Francisco Costa

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

— Pablo Picasso

“Art supersedes knowledge written in books. Art is the muse. Art is magic settling upon your he[art] like dust.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.

— Richard McGuire

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

— Maynard James Keenan

Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the…

— Eric Maisel

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

— Anonymous

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

— C. S. Lewis

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

— Pras Michel

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

— Rebecca West

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

— Niall Horan

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You…

— M. Night Shyamalan

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

— Junot Diaz

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

— Gustave Flaubert

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on…

— David Bowie

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how…

— Josh Groban

This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness…

— Shawn Crahan

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

— Alan Watts

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

— LeRoy Neiman