Artist Quotes · Page 425

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

— Carroll O'Connor

Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything,…

— Marcel Duchamp

When you become your own boss, and your artwork becomes your livelihood, it becomes the only thing you think about.

— Jinkx Monsoon

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

— N. C. Wyeth

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

— John F. Carlson

“start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really…

— Eero Saarinen

If you're an artist, create music and put it out on the Internet. If you do this consistently, your fan base will…

— Russ

I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new…

— Joe Madureira

I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important…

— Jim Gaffigan

“But I think it will bring you something besides this, something that is the knowledge of real strength in art: not that…

— Oscar Wilde

Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up…

— Semir Zeki

History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual…

— Camille Paglia

I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do…

— Romero Britto

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

— Romare Bearden

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

— Lana Del Rey

Whoa.. all these broken hearts on that poll. Man if poll dancing's a art you know how many fu-kin artist I know.

— Drake

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

— Margaret Atwood

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

— Chath Piersath

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

— Jeanette Winterson

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

— Jackie DeShannon

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

— Renzo Piano

The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream.”

— Paul Gauguin

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye…

— John Legend

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

— Jay Sankey

I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be…

— Dan Povenmire

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.

— Leni Riefenstahl

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

— Dan Thompson

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

— Dennis Hopper

I love looking at sculpture, but there's some sort of spell that's broken with it.

— Joe Bradley

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

— Lionel Trilling

“Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“While English is an international language, the Art language is the universal one.”

— Sabina Hassan

I think that putting merchandising into the hands of the artist themselves is one of the best things for the artist.

— Randall Munroe

I am a holographic representation in the third dimension of what was requested by your souls that one of your favourite artists…

— Terence Trent D'Arby