Artist Quotes · Page 480

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good…

— Damien Hirst

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

— Julian Schnabel

I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it.

— Faith Ringgold

If, as an artist, I feel true to one thing and I'm being asked to give that up to do something else,…

— Laura Nyro

We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw…

— Kim Young-ha

What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was.

— Mitchell Feigenbaum

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good…

— Chuck Close

I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation.

— David Thewlis

Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always…

— Aesop Rock

“You finally show your professional artist friend the self-portrait you painted. At this stage of your development, what you need is a…

— Douglas Stone

“out that expending emotional labor, working without a map, and driving in the dark involve confronting fear and living with the pain…

— Seth Godin

Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I've ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way.…

— Bob Lilly

In a way, I'm glad I'm first because I won't have to panic about following anybody other than industry legend John Romita…

— Declan Shalvey

“I have zero tolerance for the use of AI in any aspect of human creative endeavor. We can make a separate space…

— Abhijit Naskar

It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its…

— John Walford

I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that…

— Gunther Schuller

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

— Cesare Pavese

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

— Robert Genn

Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.

— Shepard Fairey

The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

— L. Ron Hubbard

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

— Jeanne Moreau

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

— Hippolyte Taine

Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in…

— Patti Smith

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

— John Elkann

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

— Paul Kane

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.

— Renzo Piano

The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.

— Rose McGowan

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

— Roger Scruton

Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.

— Sarah Cooper

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

— Andre Gide

Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing…

— David Shields

In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide, comfort, expand…

— Alain de Botton

As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but…

— Amrita Sher-Gil

I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most…

— Winston Churchill

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a…

— Max Jacob

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

— James Thurber

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

— Bertolt Brecht

Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'.

— Albert Wolff

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

— Caspar David Friedrich