Artist Quotes · Page 68

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

— Jean-Michel Jarre

The artist as an artist must be an anarchist

— Kurt Eisner

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

— Nancy Lancaster

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

— Caryl Churchill

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

— Simon Callow

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

— Louis Kronenberger

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

— Philip Guston

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

— Henri Matisse

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version…

— Dean Koontz

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

— Aberjhani

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

— Josh Trank

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

— Douglas Sirk

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

— Barry Diller

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

— Pablo Picasso

If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist.

— Max Martin

I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have…

— Jason Silva

Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be…

— Matthew Collings

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very…

— Jackie DeShannon

Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically…

— Noma Bar

O.P.N. has always been about reaching for some kind of liminal state in which opposing aesthetic forces become entangled and confused and…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things…

— Erik Erikson

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed…

— Thomas Mann

Babymetal's music is something that no artist has attempted in the past, uniting people as one by crossing language barriers and national…

— Suzuka Nakamoto

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

— Marcel Duchamp

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

— Flora Thompson

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

— Jeffrey Deitch

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

“True ambition is trying to paint yourself out of a corner”

— Josh Stern

The aphorist is a hit and run artist.

— Mason Cooley

Artists have the responsibility to serve humanity give people hope.

— Dalai Lama

True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation

— Anonymous

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

— Larry Evans

It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.

— Regina Spektor

I grew up as a martial artist, and I'm still a martial artist at heart.

— Scott Coker

Art should not have to be a certain way,

— Willem de Kooning

The most beautiful pieces of art come from the ugliest situations.

— Andy Mineo

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

— Meghan Trainor

“The truth is where the sculptor's chisel chipped away the lie.”

— They Might Be Giants