Artist Quotes · Page 453

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to…

— Mary Beard

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

— Albert Camus

In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

— Albert Camus

Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?

— Richard Yates

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a…

— Seth Godin

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art…

— Isaac Asimov

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

— Georg Baselitz

When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden…

— Grimes

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I was always a creative child. I also liked to paint and draw. All those years of doing those types of things,…

— Bianca Del Rio

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you…

— Andre Malraux

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,…

— Calvin Coolidge

“I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to…

— Vladimir Nabokov

In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was…

— Joe Shuster

And I'm not even just talking artists, every single person in this nation has the right to be themselves, live life go…

— K. D. Lang

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

— Anthony Kiedis

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

— Edward Abbey

“Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.”

— Bert Dodson

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to…

— Derek R. Audette

When you're not hearing my voice, I'm working on art. So if you're not hearing me, I'm working for the people and…

— Lil B

We were thrilled when we were nominated for best new artist at the Grammys, but we were even more so when they…

— Ted Dwane

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

— Charles Baudelaire

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

— Faith Sullivan

Well, each artist has something special about them. And I try to find whats best in them and find a song that…

— Dr. Luke

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work…

— Clara Schumann

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

— Cy Twombly

I know a lot of artists say, 'If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like…

— Kelly Clarkson

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime…

— Erik Satie

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

— Odilon Redon

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

— John Legend

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

— Gerhard Richter

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

— Louie Psihoyos

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

I like to sketch and draw and a lot of people don't know is that I drew a lot of my tats.

— Bradley Beal