Artist Quotes · Page 435

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

— Franz Grillparzer

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us…

— James Dickey

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

— Mason Cooley

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

— Takeshi Kitano

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.

— Paul Robeson

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as…

— LeRoy Neiman

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist…

— Jacob Epstein

“Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.”

— Oliver Gaspirtz

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too…

— Cecily Brown

When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think…

— Jim Woodring

Women face a lot of challenges every day - we have to stand firm in our walk and our intentions - but…

— Solange Knowles

Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a…

— Rick Rubin

I want to be more than just a musician or an artist and I felt that I achieved that, with Forbes. I…

— Momina Mustehsan

There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you…

— Cameron Crowe

Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious…

— Philippa Perry

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

— Anton Chekhov

“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity.

— Elijah Wood

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.

— Jason Aldean

“An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.”

— Darrell Case

There's this amazing dialogue between me and my fans. There's an interest in the sharing of intellectual ideas based around art.

— Matty Healy

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

— Emil Nolde

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help…

— Anonymous

Hema ji is a dedicated artist and a perfectionist who continues to rehearse on her lines till she gets them right.

— Rakul Preet Singh

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

— Julien Benda

I'm not going to let anyone tell me that I can't perform, that I'm not artistic.

— Max Aaron

“Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing.”

— Neil Gaiman

I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.

— Robert Ingpen

I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one

— Jessica Lange

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject,rather does the subject grow to look like his portrait.

— Ceejay

There, I'm an artist. Thousands of women on ecstasy now want to have three-ways with me.

— Tim Dorsey

Imagine what Masaccio or Leonardo would have done if they had an instrument with which they could point, push a button, and…

— Thomas Roma

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

— Wanda Koop

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

— Alfred Kinsey

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people…

— Keith Haring

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.

— Charles Fleischer

I try to not to overanalyze, not to watch myself too much, but to be present in life and in my art.…

— Chrissy Metz