Artist Quotes · Page 478

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to…

— David Hockney

“If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

— Salvador Dalí

“Art is a witness to both our fallen world and hope for its redemption.”

— Daniel A. Siedell

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to…

— Émile Zola

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

— Miguel

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic -…

— Amy Sherald

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

— Pablo Picasso

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to…

— Alberto Giacometti

I think that the first responsibility of an artist is to follow truth, and the innate original forces and energies that are…

— Tony Shafrazi

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long…

— Isadora Duncan

I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe…

— Ian Anderson

Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not…

— Austin Kleon

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more…

— Thom Mayne

“I think you might be surprised how thin the lines between art and sports really are - some artists consider their craft…

— Francesca Zappia

“What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn't matter; painting was the…

— Irving Stone

I feel, as artists, our duty is to keep working and keep making whatever we believe in.

— Sunil Grover

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

— J. M. W. Turner

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

— Matt LeBlanc

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

— Leo Tolstoy

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the…

— William Faulkner

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

— Pablo Picasso

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

— Chantal Sutherland

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

— Tony Bennett

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

— Robert Barry

Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.

— Daniel H. Pink

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get…

— Winston Churchill

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the…

— Michael Heizer

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

— Edvard Munch

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I…

— Pablo Picasso

My drawing I drew this is how I feel now I just can't take anything anymore

— Brianna Singing

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

— Alfred de Vigny

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

— Ben Nicholson

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

— Robert Genn

“Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.”

— Philip Pullman

“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.”

— Lawrence Durrell

If you're an artist who's built on marketing and hype then most likely I won't listen to you.

— Mac Miller

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off.

— Dane Cook

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

— Sara Maitland

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley