Artist Quotes · Page 73

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

— Steve Stoute

Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.

— Ming-Dao Deng

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

— Ingmar Bergman

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

— Julia Cameron

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

— Orhan Pamuk

There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

— Guillermo del Toro

Don't animate drawings, animate feelings.

— Ollie Johnston

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

— Robert Henri

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

— Lou Reed

“Last week during Life Drawing, Ms Franklin asked me if I'd ever considered majoring in art instead of biology. I asked her…

— Michael Grant

Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.

— Ursula Nordstrom

“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.”

— Stephanie Lennox

“I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world.”

— David Foster Wallace

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

— Alexander Kotov

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

— Robert Genn

Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?

— Lana Del Rey

I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something…

— Simon Cowell

Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not…

— Stephen Vizinczey

It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic…

— David Bowie

Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when…

— Wale

When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the…

— Ali Banisadr

Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I…

— Francoise Gilot

“a gunpowder factory exploded at Delft in the 1600s, that the painter had been so haunted and obsessed by the destruction of…

— Donna Tartt

All artists have to do that at a certain point. This shift that has to happen between the initial moment of creation…

— Malcolm Gladwell

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

— David Hockney

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

— Andy Warhol

As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.

— Robert Smithson

Art is most effective when concealed.

— Ovid

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

— Gunter Grass

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

— Karl Kraus

A painting is not made to be sniffed.

— Rembrandt

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

— Jacob Epstein

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

— Neil Gaiman

I've drawn some things that have fallen very flat.

— Gary Larson

“commonly find underpaintings. Most often these are the earlier”

— Seb Kirby

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

— Terry Brooks

“The secret of good magic is another magic.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

— Dominic Monaghan

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

— Claude Debussy

We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.

— Jandy Nelson