Artist Quotes · Page 491

I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.

— Sally Rooney

“Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

— Ellen Forney

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small,…

— Carl Sagan

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

— Robert Irwin

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder…

— Robert Townsend

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

— Howard Hodgkin

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

— Aaron Sorkin

Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists…

— Robyn

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big…

— Carrie Underwood

The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only…

— Neil Patrick Harris

In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people…

— Golan Levin

The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can…

— Thomas J. Katz

“Yet another strategy for encoding in Renaissance works involved environmental “special effects.” Messages were ingeniously inserted so that they could be viewed…

— Benjamin Blech

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this…

— Quentin Tarantino

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have…

— Dennis Hopper

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

— Thornton Wilder

I want people to see my unique charm I have in contrast to the other artists.

— Yunho

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

— Louise Hay

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The biggest gift I received as a martial artist is without a question the capacity to be in peace.

— Rickson Gracie

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing…

— Andrew Wyeth

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way…

— O. Henry

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

— Theodore Gericault

The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.

— Philip Pullman

I think as a producer, you're always sort of questioning if what you're contributing is something that an artist loves and elevates…

— Rostam Batmanglij

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think…

— Rick Baker

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

— Jo Brand

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

— Francisco Goya

“Art is a miraculous flirtation with Nothing! Aiming for nothing, and landing on the Sun.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.

— Tom Wolfe

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

— Michel de Montaigne

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— Stefani Guerra

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

— Wes Nisker

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at…

— George Henry Lewes

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the…

— Rex Brandt

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

— Paul Gauguin

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in…

— Lynne Tillman

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

— David Hockney

Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

— Hans Arp