Artist Quotes · Page 446

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

— Brice Marden

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

— Paul Russo

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

— Seth MacFarlane

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

— Peter Doig

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making…

— Joyce Maynard

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

— Peter M. Brant

“A work of art is...a bridge, however tenuous, between one mind and another.”

— Andrew Harrison

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say…

— Robert Brustein

I would challenge more hip hop artists that are rapping about what it's like to be real and the social ills that…

— Killer Mike

Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my…

— Kurt Schwitters

Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it.…

— Adam Leipzig

I can go wherever, to Kuala Lumpur or wherever, and if somebody will ask me where I'm from and I say I'm…

— Jon Gnarr

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a…

— Rick Danko

I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little…

— Dolly Parton

If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being…

— Kehinde Wiley

“What will make someone a linchpin is not a shortcut. It’s the understanding of which hard work is worth doing. The only…

— Seth Godin

“What are you going to do if you find art, Pen? You going to steal some and put it in the van?"…

— Francesca Lia Block

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

— Paul Cezanne

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

— Austin O'Malley

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

— Salvador Dali

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

— Anonymous

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm…

— Charles M. Schulz

Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

— Simon Cowell

“You are an artist and I happen to be the bit of color you are using today.”

— Edith Wharton

I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.

— M. C. Escher

The art industry is a totally different world, and to be appreciated in that different world is what matters to me.

— Heart Evangelista

I think you have some artists who try to be as conscious as they can be.

— Raheem DeVaughn

The life of an artist is a continuous journey, the path long and never ending.

— Justin Beckett

Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?

— Eric Maisel

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for…

— Sylvester Stallone

If you're not a makeup artist, and you just try to go for the big looks, it just gets the best of…

— Gigi Hadid

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in…

— Frank Moore Colby

The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in...He has not created something,he has seen something.

— T. E. Hulme

I'm very receptive to direction, to change, and to developing myself as an artist and human.

— Aquaria

I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.

— Takashi Murakami

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding

— Daniel Libeskind

I'm a martial artist, and I don't train because I have a fight; I train because it's my lifestyle, and I'll train…

— Georges St-Pierre

My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.

— Vivek Shraya

“To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I…

— Doug Cooper