Artist Quotes · Page 490

“Art needs motives that are more profound than profit if it is to maintain its difference from—and position above—other cultural forms.”

— Sarah Thornton

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

— Robert Motherwell

A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by…

— James Elkins

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

— Pablo Picasso

I've collected John Ward pieces for years. Ward represents ideas of nature and of sediments.

— Jonathan Anderson

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

— Jasper Johns

I think you really have to know what you want if you want to be an artist. Otherwise, you just kind of…

— Nina Nesbitt

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

— Yayoi Kusama

When you're younger, you don't realize you have limitations and that you are the one who has to take care of yourself.…

— Jennifer Lopez

I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork.…

— St. Lucia

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it.…

— John Ruskin

Something that I've told all of my young artists is, there are going to be haters. You're going to read things that…

— Scott Borchetta

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you…

— Angelique Kidjo

To the extent that someone goes out to criticize another woman about hair, makeup, silliness like that - unless you're talking about…

— Marcia Clark

What you have to go through to release a film is probably the most arduous set of tasks - compared to all…

— Terence Nance

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too…

— Giovanni Ribisi

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art;…

— Marcel Duchamp

I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

— John Dyer

I am an important artist. And I make art. Therefore, my opinion matters.

— Poppy

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

— Chris Jordan

Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people.

— Jesse James Garrett

“Through Art, all change is possible. Solutions seem to surface. Strangers come together. Meaningful connections happen.”

— Tom Althouse

I think the worst thing in the world is for artists to produce themselves.

— Leo Sayer

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

— Nadia Boulanger

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

— Tanith Lee

“...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles…

— John Geddes

I'm not interested in creating a self-aggrandizing home base for myself, for my artistic foibles and interests.

— Sam Wanamaker

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to…

— Frank Ocean

Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very…

— John Corabi

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of…

— Christian Slater

My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making…

— Jackson Pollock

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

— Naum Gabo

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

— Oscar Wilde

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At some point as an artist you have to take responsibility for everything you say.

— Naughty Boy

Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.

— Jenna Wortham

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

— Linda Ronstadt

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.

— Shawn Crahan