Artist Quotes · Page 475

“It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things…

— Walter Isaacson

This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

— Robert Genn

I don’t believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That’s bullshit.

— David Byrne

I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

— Tina Modotti

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

— Bruce Springsteen

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it…

— Yoko Ono

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

— Oscar Wilde

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

— Irving Stone

My fingertips are my favorite makeup brush! I especially like to apply my eye shadow with them, get it nice and smudgy.…

— Josie Maran

I don't paint over my paintings with black paint. I paint black paintings. It isn't because I'm sad, just as I didn't…

— Georg Baselitz

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with…

— Jeremy Begbie

Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her…

— Steven Pressfield

“But the important point here is not that you have — or don’t have — what other artists have, but rather that…

— David Bayles

It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed,…

— Alan Moore

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of…

— Joseph Beuys

I had a desperate need to be Van Gogh or something. Some tremendous artist. Jack's so successful, what's wrong with me, why…

— Kyle Gass

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its…

— Questlove

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

— Tim Burton

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

— Gerhard Richter

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have…

— Deborah Solomon

Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.

— Iman Shumpert

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

— Anselm Kiefer

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

— Jerry Saltz

You can't brand an artiste and take away the fact that he or she wants to do something genuinely different.

— Sameera Reddy

Constant contact is what people require these days. Its tough on artists.

— Emily Robison

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

— Gary Shteyngart

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

— Melanie Fiona

No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

— Chuck Close

Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

— Cynthia Daignault

Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and…

— Emil Ferris

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

— Samuel R. Delany

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint...

— Bruce Springsteen

Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.

— Lee Unkrich

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

— Wilson Pickett

“Every artist is born in a place, within a family, and though she may leave those sources far behind, they remain within…

— Tori Amos

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the…

— John Marin

“As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.”

— Alexandra York

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

— Joel Edgerton

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

— Gustave Courbet

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton