Artist Quotes · Page 470

In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

— Tony Campolo

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

As an artist you always want to challenge yourself, but as you get older you want to bring the audience with you…

— Dennis DeYoung

“Essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton describes art as “an apothecary for the soul.”

— Arianna Huffington

Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination.

— Rza

I wanted to be a prosthetic makeup artist after watching 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'.

— Mathew Horne

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get…

— Tove Styrke

Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be…

— Matthew Collings

I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have…

— Jason Silva

All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second,…

— Marco Pierre White

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very…

— Jackie DeShannon

In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this…

— Jules Olitski

Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically…

— Noma Bar

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft,…

— Paul Cezanne

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness…

— Ansel Adams

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

— Samuel West

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

— Ruth Asawa

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

— Stacy Martin

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

— David Luiz

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

— Andy Warhol

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

— Romare Bearden

“Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate…

— Scott Nicholson

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

— Jerzy Kosinski

Life is a color of your dreams passion experiences. Fling paint it at daily.

— Anonymous

When I draw the scene that I'd been dreaming about or had always wanted to draw, that is the time that I'm…

— Tite Kubo

As a martial artist you have to be truthful about yourself so you can approach your training properly and get better.

— Frank Mir

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to…

— Carlos Fuentes

It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

— Washed Out

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

— Kevin Bacon

When I'm working with an artist, my job is to make their vision come to life.

— Ludwig Goransson

Kollywood is my parent film industry. It was here that I was born as an actress and grew as an artist.

— Asin

“Art could state very little - it's whole business is to evoke responses.”

— Dodie Smith

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.

— Michael Redd

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white…

— Vivek Shraya

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

— Barnett Newman

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

— Mary Wigman

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

— Christian Nestell Bovee