Artist Quotes · Page 434

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

— Chuck Klosterman

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

— Allan Kaprow

I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I…

— Kristen Wiig

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

— Harold Rosenberg

“Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

— Stephen Graham Jones

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence…

— Joseph Conrad

I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

— Camille Henrot

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning…

— Gustav Klimt

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful…

— Lee Krasner

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist…

— Justin Chon

One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that…

— Moby

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely…

— Gustave Courbet

Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every…

— Cynthia Rylant

I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm…

— Anthony Browne

When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the…

— Anonymous

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

— Agnes Martin

Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?

— Lana Del Rey

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

— Danny Kaye

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

— Robert Genn

“I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world.”

— David Foster Wallace

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

— Alexander Kotov

“Last week during Life Drawing, Ms Franklin asked me if I'd ever considered majoring in art instead of biology. I asked her…

— Michael Grant

Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.

— Ursula Nordstrom

“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.”

— Stephanie Lennox

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

— Lou Reed

If I feel the labor and the gruesome process, that helps me appreciate the art.

— Johan Renck

It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

— Deanna Petherbridge

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new…

— Mat Kearney

As an artist, I am for non-film music as well. I want that to shine as much as Bollywood.

— Armaan Malik

The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.

— Billy Cannon

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

— John Lone

“Without the pain there would not be art, the patterns are the pieces of me i've lost and gained along the way.”

— Nikki Rowe

I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.

— Barry McGee

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

— Alice Randall

When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we've got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use…

— Raheem DeVaughn

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good…

— William Blake

“Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you’re looking at more clearly. Did you know…

— David Almond

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends…

— John Ruskin

It is essential for artistes to have that release of creativity, almost as necessary as eating food or drinking water.

— Akshaye Khanna