Artist Quotes · Page 481

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

— Jessica Brown Findlay

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

— Kehinde Wiley

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

— Peter Max

...Omit nothing which can advance his work, and not blame others for the delay.

— Vincent de Paul

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

— Peter Wright

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a…

— D. H. Lawrence

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I'm really an artist. I really do this. I don't need the money. It doesn't matter to me.

— Trippie Redd

A lot of people think that there has to be extreme continuity in an album, but if you look at my background,…

— Donny Osmond

The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually…

— Igor Stravinsky

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed…

— Alain Badiou

I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film…

— Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the…

— Stephen McCauley

I might ask about the first time a person heard a song that they really responded to, like when I asked Mos…

— Anthony DeCurtis

“As an artist, one always seeks the acceptance and adoration of the audience, and therefore I was afraid this could affect my…

— Ricky Martin

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working…

— Henry Moore

“She had interesting cracks on her ceiling, which she had mentally enhanced and colored to make a virtual series of 723 abstracts.”

— Anne Charnock

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do…

— Ava DuVernay

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half…

— Bob Colacello

“It was a three-dimensional nightmare version of some of his own drawings.”

— Katherine Paterson

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

— Ernst Haas

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without…

— Patrick Swayze

“People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk…

— Christopher Bram

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a…

— Edward Burns

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

— Maya Lin

Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of…

— Robert Ripley

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

— Julia Cameron

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

— Clement Greenberg

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you…

— Kara Walker

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch…

— Nick Cannon

I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only…

— Roger Lewis

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.

— Andy Warhol

The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

— Charles Segars

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely…

— Yann Martel

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

— Karen Armstrong

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't…

— Jay Kay

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

— Thomas Kinkade

The most important function of art and science is to Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive.

— Albert Einstein

“O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?”

— Andrei Platonov

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

— Ken Rockwell