Artist Quotes · Page 484

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

— Robert Henri

I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.

— Estelle

In times of crisis the artist must rise to the challenge and try to make sense from the chaos.

— Shabana Azmi

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

— John French Sloan

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

— Dylan Lauren

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower.…

— Paul Cezanne

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his…

— Lewis Hyde

“I put my deodorant on like I’m painting my armpits with a paintbrush. Art is everywhere and in everything—especially love.”

— Jarod Kintz

I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's…

— Alfredo Jaar

The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about…

— Jerry Pinkney

A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing…

— Manny Farber

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even…

— Julio Iglesias

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only…

— Seth Godin

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by…

— Mos Def

It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure…

— Jean-Pierre Melville

Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors…

— Robert Henri

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader...

— Aberjhani

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass…

— Susan Sontag

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

— Dwayne Hickman

Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.

— John Waters

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

— Paul Gauguin

I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.

— Jared Leto

“True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.”

— Tiffany Madison

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

— Norah Jones

Heres to freedom, cheers to art. Heres to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

— Jason Mraz

What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

— Ne-Yo

“Remember, the masterpiece of your life is perpetually in progress—each date a fresh stroke on your canvas.”

— Léon RocheBlance

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

— Marcel Proust

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of…

— Ellsworth Kelly

To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

— Stephan Pastis

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

— George L. Carlson

Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell.

— KiKi Layne

I'm an artist - I'm an actor - so when I'm looking for something, I'm looking for stories.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Just because you like one song from an artist, that doesn't make you a fan.

— Lil Nas X

I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.

— Tobias Forge

As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me - they still are.

— Jonathan Pryce

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

— Walter Darby Bannard

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

— Pablo Picasso

Pressure' is the perfect first single, it just felt right. As an artist, you have to feel it out and let it…

— Ahmad Balshe

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for…

— Marjorie Liu