Artist Quotes · Page 108

I think artists are interested in what people think of them.

— Logic

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

— Michelangelo

“That which is like unto itself, is drawn.”

— Esther Hicks

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

— Cy Twombly

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

— Auguste Rodin

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

— Andre Malraux

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

— Edgard Varese

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

— Brice Marden

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

— Bryan Konietzko

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

— Henri Matisse

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

— Robert Henri

Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.

— Cree Summer

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

— Robert Breault

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

— Henry Moore

“What you don't learn in art theory is how too big a compliment can hurt more than a slap to the face.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

I have to be really honest: People who say they can't escape the paparazzi are full of sh*t. Let me just be…

— Lady Gaga

Celebrity hits like a bomb. So you have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening…

— Jimmy Smits

My favorite song I ever wrote is 'Yeah 3x' because it was my first placement. It was with a great artist, Chris…

— Sevyn Streeter

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest…

— John Baldessari

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable.…

— Anish Kapoor

You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger…

— Richard Schmid

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on…

— Vinny Testaverde

In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a…

— James Elkins

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

— Hozier

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

— Guy Davenport

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.

— D.T. Suzuki

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

— Steve McQueen

I've had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.

— Sevyn Streeter

I love Lady Gaga. I think shes a really interesting artist.

— Britney Spears

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

— Anonymous

My mother always told me I would be an artist.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

— Sarah Addison Allen

Art is not meant to change the world.

— JR

Art is a tool that isnt used enough to effect change.

— Mattias Klum

There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

— Nate Lowman

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

— Leonardo da Vinci

What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

— Jane Seymour

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

— Harry Crews

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

— Leonardo da Vinci