Artist Quotes · Page 459

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

— Willem de Kooning

Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.

— Jerzy Grotowski

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I am moved, shaken, and when it is all over, I look at wonder at what is written or painted.

— Robert Kanigher

“Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.”

— Laini Taylor

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

— Amiri Baraka

What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.

— Marina and the Diamonds

I think I have something special. I am confident that I am going to be an artist.

— Rosalia

My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in…

— Cecily Brown

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction…

— Marc Davis

It would be inadmissible if I would vent my opinion publicly. Not only could I harm the artist concerned seriously because people…

— Fela Kuti

I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,…

— Lebbeus Woods

“The Wisdom of Solomon (Carl) They censor words not the things they denote: It would create less of a stir to drop…

— Allen Ginsberg

A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do…

— Christopher Owens

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter…

— John Berger

I think a lot of people are involved in art because of the fashion of art and the conversation. It gives them…

— Laurence Graff

Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.

— Frank Bruno

For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.

— Moshe Kupferman

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

— Jane Badler

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

— Freeman Patterson

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better…

— Bill Crawford

I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3…

— William Klein

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

— Seth

“I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple…

— Henri Matisse

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

— Francis Schaeffer

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

— Jil Sander

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

— Romare Bearden

“Great art might not be popular, but it is always born out of non-linear, non-formulaic thinking.”

— Abhaidev

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which…

— Henry Rollins

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few...

— LeRoy Neiman

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for…

— Billy Joel

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master…

— Kehinde Wiley

A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone.

— Jancee Dunn

There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.

— Raymond Chandler

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

— Nicholas Meyer

This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are…

— Wolfgang Pauli

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

— Nina Simone

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

— Edith Wharton

I didn't watch 'The A-Team' movie. I'm an artist. You can't re-paint a Rembrandt. You can't duplicate that; I don't care who…

— Mr. T