Artist Quotes · Page 486

“In art, music, and writing, if it's not of the heart, it means nothing.”

— Terry a O'Neal

I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.

— Pharrell Williams

“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”

— C.S. Lewis

I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary], and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.

— Amber Heard

I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

— Chantal Joffe

Sometimes I may paint myself into a corner, but you should see the exquisite details and colors. . .

— Rick Sutter

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

— Willem de Kooning

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own…

— Sonia Rykiel

I think the rebuilding of the city has to start with the spirit first. So the music, the vibe, the connection spiritually…

— Doug E. Fresh

The only way to eliminate any government choice on what art is worthwhile, what art isn't worthwhile, is to get the government…

— Antonin Scalia

I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to…

— Gina Carano

Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him…

— Vincent Van Gogh

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take…

— Roger Waters

I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me!…

— Bootsy Collins

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let…

— Henry David Thoreau

Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much…

— Anonymous

A fool-proof method for sculpting an horse: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look…

— Anonymous

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

— Rita Moreno

“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?”

— Andre Dubus

The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.

— Win Butler

Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.

— Robert Genn

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

— Leonora Carrington

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the…

— Joe Bradley

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.

— R. S. Thomas

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

— Laurence Overmire

Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the…

— Daveed Diggs

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

— Edvard Munch

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

— Thomas Couture

I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to…

— Harry Callahan

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born…

— Rajneesh

I'm an underground mix-tape artist who's had a level of commercial success.

— Chamillionaire

Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured.

— Bill Bailey

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's…

— Howard Hodgkin

Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I'm always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn…

— Judith Hill

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

— Anonymous

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

— Odilon Redon

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

— Janet Echelman

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

— Pablo Picasso