Artist Quotes · Page 429

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the…

— Jose Parla

There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day,…

— Rachele Brooke Smith

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

— Oscar Wilde

My essentials - besides my make-up artist - are high SPF and waterproof mascara.

— Laura Whitmore

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit…

— Tony Robbins

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation…

— Anonymous

I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I…

— Andy Serkis

I think the key to really jumping out of that idea of saturation is longevity. I think that's the number one thing…

— Mr. Carmack

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the…

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr

The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing…

— Francis Ford Coppola

If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the…

— Anton Corbijn

Im living as an artist, and thats a staggering feeling, its a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with…

— Conor McPherson

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

— Anthony Burgess

Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.

— Frank Oppenheimer

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms…

— Maya Deren

“I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol”

— Patti Smith

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

— Roger Scruton

“This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and…

— Tim Perkins

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

— Alice Walker

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

— Edward Norton

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

— Adrienne Rich

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life…

— Charlotte Rampling

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

— Lawrence Durrell

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera…

— Nigel Dennis

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

— Hesiod

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

— Ani DiFranco

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

— Barry Hannah

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

— Minor White

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

— Albert Camus

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

— George Santayana

Art is an infusion of inner feelings and thoughts executed in an original style that defines the artist.

— Jean Norvy

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

— Edvard Munch

Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it.

— Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

— Cornel West

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic…

— Clive Bell

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

— Le Corbusier