Artist Quotes · Page 451

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

— Havelock Ellis

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

— Gordon Waller

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

— William Allan

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

— Olafur Eliasson

“Cheers to all the Rebels out there who care way too much about Art and Truth and Magic to fall in line…

— Scott Stabile

Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

— Paul Chong Hasang

You should not think of business while performing your art. This advice holds true for every artiste, irrespective of what he is…

— Himesh Reshammiya

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as…

— Twyla Tharp

“He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom…

— John Fowles

Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay…

— Jerry Saltz

“Rorschach knew Binet’s work and was familiar with Binet’s own inspiration—Leonardo da Vinci, who in his “Treatise on Painting” described throwing paint…

— Damion Searls

“To paint, to write, to engage in politics—these are not merely ‘sublimations’; here we have aims that are willed for their own…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts,…

— Philip Guston

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society…

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making…

— Polixeni Papapetrou

I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you…

— Greg Laswell

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.

— Seymour Chwast

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

— Paul McCartney

To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist.

— DJ Shadow

I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...

— Henri Matisse

I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.

— Bryan Callen

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

— Shepard Fairey

I care about 'RuPaul's Drag Race' a lot. It's given me a career as an artist.

— Alaska

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up…

— Nick Cave

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

— M. C. Escher

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is…

— Beatrix Potter

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

— Alexis Carrel

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

— Anonymous

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being…

— Amy Sillman

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your…

— Toyin Odutola

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

— Eli Broad

Most collectors I know don't think of art as a business or as an investment.

— Norman Braman

I think I get into the paint and create for others with the best of them.

— De'Aaron Fox

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Growing older, boundaries between the artist and the listener are something that nowadays should be completely demolished.

— Mod Sun

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

— Ben Jonson

Art does not exist for itself; it is but an avenue through and by which humanity expresses itself.

— Gutzon Borglum

I collect paint like I collect sound. And then I use layers, layers, layers.

— Goldie