Artist Quotes · Page 424

“We often walk without knowing the beautiful and the mysterious art created behind us by our shadows.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Life is a artwork. And the picture you paint is what describes who you are.

— Emanuel Sebastiao

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music -…

— Rosanne Cash

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

— Parker Posey

“Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.”

— Charles Ray

“[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.”

— Neville Weston

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

— Zoey Deutch

I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another…

— Nelson Shanks

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not…

— Kesh

Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt,…

— Charlotte Cotton

For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had…

— Paul Auster

“It's like art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he can paint the right way, before he goes putting…

— Neal Shusterman

You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you…

— Chuck D

I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a…

— Anonymous

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

— Jorg Immendorff

“These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell…

— John McLaughlin

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

— Amanda Palmer

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who…

— Lisa Yuskavage

Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.

— Philipp Otto Runge

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

— Sophie Calle

I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that…

— Doseone

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had…

— Derek R. Audette

Street art belongs on the street. But I'm a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style…

— Ben Eine

I'm an artist, a performer... There's an art to what we do to the wrestling... I don't want to really fight anybody.

— Mickie James

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

— Jason Momoa

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

— Juvenal

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a…

— Jeffrey Deitch

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

— J. Carter Brown

“I grab the nearest can of miracle paint this guy is spazzing about and a church key from the paint desk.”

— Russ Linton

You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples…

— Timothy Morton

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

— Orson Welles

I get to do some kind of artwork almost everyday and it just so happens that I can pay the bills and…

— William Webb

“Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and…

— Andy Warhol

They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.

— Chris Van Allsburg