Artist Quotes · Page 461

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

— John Edgar Park

With Priyadarshan, he is extremely strict but lets me do what I want. You have that kind of freedom as an artiste.

— Sameera Reddy

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

— Grace Hartigan

We must link Azamgarh to art and culture and not with terrorism and crime.

— Yogi Adityanath

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

— Frank Capra

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

— Kerry Washington

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

— Auguste Rodin

I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.

— Joe Lycett

I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at…

— John Wijngaards

I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I…

— Sandra Cisneros

With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous…

— Josh Peck

The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live,…

— Marcel Proust

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently…

— Joshua Reynolds

I know some people are like, 'I'm depressed, and I'm a struggling artist,' and that really works for some people, but that…

— Charli XCX

There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic…

— Kehinde Wiley

I'm constantly working on something new, whether it's a Garbage song, or for someone I'm producing or a song for film or…

— Butch Vig

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and…

— Raekwon

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person,…

— Chuck D

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I…

— Jaron Lanier

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

— Robert Indiana

“There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. [Pg.189]”

— Akira Kurosawa

“For an artist, there's nothing better than having the opportunity to create a world that doesn't- but could- exist.”

— Christophe Lautrette

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

— Leo Tolstoy

“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.”

— Marina Abramović

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

— David Elliott

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

— Neal Cassady

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

— John Chamberlain

I think as a creative person, anything you put in front of an artist, any type of medium, your specific tastes will…

— Julia Fox

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

— Eli Broad

I have learned that as an artist, I cannot succumb to the temptation to please others.

— Kiana Madeira

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

— Howard Hodgkin

I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.

— Linda Perry

I'm a well rounded artist and I love to make music and create and be different. Hopefully I get the opportunity to…

— Tony Sunshine

“Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.”

— Claude Monet

“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity.”

— Ralph Ellison

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when…

— Gustave Flaubert

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

— Robert Henri

My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look…

— Bar Refaeli

Art and love are the same thing: Its the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you

— Chuck Klosterman