Artist Quotes · Page 468

I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

— William Blake

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

— Edna Longley

“The artist is a constructor of mirrors through which humanity can recognize their own beauty.”

— Manuela Nicolini

Life is a one-way street, and if you could paint it. I'd draw myself going in the right direction.

— Gnarls Barkley

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

— Thomas A. Edison

I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last.

— Lucien Smith

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

— Emma Anderson

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

— Jack Levine

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one…

— Henry Rollins

My uncles represented a strength and a power I think that to a certain degree I looked up to. But from another…

— Willie Herron

Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as…

— David Kassan

If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the…

— Susan Sontag

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music…

— Bjork

“You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving…

— Anton Chekhov

Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus…

— Walter Gropius

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when…

— Elvin Jones

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just…

— K. D. Lang

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

— Quentin Tarantino

Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it's worth a lot.

— Afeni Shakur

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

— Irving Stone

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

— Charles de Lint

A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.

— Oliver $

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

— Michel de Montaigne

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

— Howard Jacobson

For me, being an artist was a thing that, like, rich people in New York and L.A. and Paris and Rome did.…

— Cord Jefferson

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

— Paul Klee

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

— Terry Gross

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

— Voltaire

If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.

— Demetri Martin

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

— Henri Matisse

I believe that, in our industry, overexposure tends to create problems for artists, so fortunately, I have been exposed but not overexposed.

— Nora Fatehi

“We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

“Exploration is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is…

— John R. Stilgoe

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

— Amanda Palmer

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

— Howard Hodgkin

I've always been such an album-driven artist that I never really stopped to think about how cool it would be to just…

— Kyle

“Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.”

— John Berger

“It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.”

— Anne Rice

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

— Ezra Pound