Artist Quotes · Page 448

I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and…

— David Shields

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

— Kirsty Gallacher

“What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.”

— Meredith Duran

Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted…

— Mia Kirshner

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

— John Marin

“Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.”

— Jerry Saltz

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

— Piet Mondrian

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put…

— Laurie Anderson

The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I…

— Julie Mehretu

Where would a character artist like me get an opportunity like 'Kaamyaab?' I count myself lucky in certain things - I did…

— Sanjay Mishra

We live in a capitalistic society, don't we? Our country is based on the idea of the free market. Why not incorporate…

— Benson Henderson

Dude, okay, so you're gay. You may consider that to be different, but you're not different. You have two jobs. You have…

— Ty Herndon

“In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal…

— Oscar Wilde

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only…

— Michelangelo

I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something…

— Olivier Theyskens

It's a lot easier to teach someone how to use a computer than it is to teach someone how to be an…

— Victor Navone

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists

— Terrence Howard

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

— Charles Baudelaire

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

— Cory Booker

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be…

— Agatha Christie

As artists, it’s our job to delve into the uncomfortable, the difficult and the challenging.

— Jared Leto

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to…

— Charles Saatchi

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

— James Wolcott

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

— Vladimir Nabokov

My company, Kaikai Kiki, is unique because it's an art business. I had to find out how to do this by myself.

— Takashi Murakami

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

— Michelangelo

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

— Bruce Nauman

The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.

— Eric Maisel

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

— Arthur Erickson

“Artists have to have a good eye. And to be great, I'd recommend having two.”

— Jarod Kintz

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

— Paul Cezanne

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

— John Sterling

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

— Anthony Burgess

Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

— Thomas Hoving

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in…

— Robbie Rist

The first artist I really loved was Stevie Wonder. That opened the doors to other soul singers like Ray Charles and Aretha…

— Olly Alexander

Dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality.

— Anonymous