Artist Quotes · Page 441

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

— Matthea Harvey

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

People have drawn me, which is super cool. I'd love to print some out and put them on my wall.

— Mirai Nagasu

I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

— Mitski

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about…

— Alan Moore

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

— Freeman Dyson

People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.

— Francisco Costa

If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women.

— Jeff Buckley

The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are…

— Mark Ruffalo

What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the…

— Italo Calvino

Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the…

— Mike Mills

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard…

— Bette Davis

We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible,…

— Alice Cooper

I think we all have this special equation with our art where we don't feel the need for anything else; it almost…

— Shobana

“The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence,…

— James Joyce

“There was the honour and austerity of money as he walked through art galleries, as he saw around him the collections of…

— Lydia Millet

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

— Camille Pissarro

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.

— August Kleinzahler

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

— Oscar Wilde

Yes we are Artist when we even express our anger, it becomes art in other people eyes !!

— Glen Rambharack

I'm worried about being pigeonholed as an artist, especially a female one, but I think, essentially, it's the music which people judge…

— Kate Nash

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be…

— Willem de Kooning

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

— Steven Spielberg

You don't know that you're not a solo artist or standup comedian or drag cabaret artist until you try it.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.

— Austin Mahone

I feel like emotional content is the most important of any song, for any artist.

— LP

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be…

— Anonymous

One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots.

— Kim Rossmo

“art is a meditation upon external reality rather than a representation of external reality”

— Donald Barthelme

“Unless we are very young or lifelong fools, we do not look to artists --- or their biographers --- for our role…

— Jesse Kornbluth

When you feel as if the world is only black and white, be that inspirational paint when no one else will.

— Ayjee Grogan

A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.

— Edgar Degas

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

— Lionel Richie

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

— Jerry Saltz

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

— Edward Ruscha

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on…

— Scott Thompson

“Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.”

— Amit Kalantri

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

— Pierre Bonnard

“jenna preferred to think of alice that way - like an art project, colors swirling inside her, rather than of how sick…

— Emily Franklin