Artist Quotes · Page 455

I'm going back to the border. Baby where I'm better known because you haven't done nothing baby but draw the good man…

— BB King

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

— John Dewey

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

— Stephen Wright

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

— Woody Allen

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another…

— Matthew Slotover

“when i am drawing i can convice myself that i am a good person, that i am worth something”

— Joanna Kenrick

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

— Pankaj Tripathi

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All…

— Stephen King

When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for…

— Martin Parr

I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and…

— Swizz Beatz

I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars…

— Amanda Palmer

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if…

— Brian Froud

“Van Gogh on his brother's upcoming marriage: "It’s because he’s in Holland, where he’s getting married one of these days. Now, while…

— Liesbeth Heenk

Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for…

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but…

— Russell Lynes

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating…

— Jeff Koons

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

— Dan Brown

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.

— Colman Domingo

Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.

— Jacob Weisberg

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

— Walter Darby Bannard

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to…

— Anonymous

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look…

— Jack Nicholson

Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail…

— Jack White

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

— Amy Winehouse

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much…

— Philip K. Dick

“as I really don’t think I draw all that well, but it was interesting to see that some of the drawings worked…

— David Sherwin

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a…

— Kate Bush

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

— Jean Dubuffet

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after…

— George Tooker

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

— Jodie Foster

[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.

— PJ Harvey

The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.

— Deborah Moggach

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

— Eduardo Souto de Moura

“Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.”

— Elizabeth Isaacs

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily

— William Hurt

This is a drawing by me :D yes you might have seen it online but thats where I found it and I…

— Kayla

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

— Jean Cocteau

I just love what art can do and what it means for us; that it can cross barriers. It can speak to…

— Travis Knight

“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

— Frida Kahlo