Artist Quotes · Page 483

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

— Jeff Koons

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

— Edward Weston

The philosophy behind Patreon is that all the great art we have known has been made because of patronage.

— Jack Conte

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act…

— Jasper Johns

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think…

— Chris Ware

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

— M.I.A

I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.

— Philippe Petit

My wife is an artist, a painter. We are accustomed to being unemployed for long stretches of time. We know how to…

— Jack Savoretti

When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels,…

— Donald Lambert

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and…

— Hedy Lamarr

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid…

— Marlene Dietrich

The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for…

— Whitney Chadwick

... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and…

— Jim Butcher

People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate…

— Clive Bell

Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of…

— Rufino Tamayo

Working with artistic people is very special, especially when they are so professional.

— Santiago Calatrava

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

— Oscar Wilde

I have been a politically conscious citizen. I've been an artist, a reader, and have been chiselled by that.

— Prakash Raj

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

— Walter Bagehot

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

— Victor Hugo

I think even when I was little there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist.

— Condola Rashad

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

— Paul Cezanne

It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.

— Joe Sacco

Growing up, I was always trying to catch a great show. And that's where I learned an artist gets respect. That's what…

— Romeo Santos

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above…

— Auguste Rodin

America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.

— Anais Nin

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I…

— Common

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

— John Legend

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I…

— Janis Joplin

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than…

— Roger Scruton

In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.

— Wassily Kandinsky

It is about attention to detail and then the minutest detail on top of that. I am an owner, and yet I'll…

— Philip Green

The Congressional Art Competition encourages and cultivates the ingenuity and creativity of young people in our region.

— Conor Lamb

I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.

— Mark Hoppus

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.

— Richard Schmid

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has…

— Guy Deutscher

Artists who say they do not want to mix up in politics are cowards who are not willing to come to terms…

— Anonymous

I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.

— Burton Silverman

I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college.

— Gauri Khan