Artist Quotes · Page 111

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

— Marina Abramovic

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

— Robert Smithson

Successful artists don't follow trends; they create them.

— Nafessa Williams

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

— Wyndham Lewis

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

— Robert Motherwell

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

— H. L. Mencken

All works of art should begin... at the end.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I still come closest to success with drawing.

— Paul Klee

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of…

— Cyril Connolly

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

— Jasper Johns

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.

— Tom Robbins

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

— Chris Van Allsburg

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or…

— Emil Nolde

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

— Frank Stella

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

— Lynn Shelton

“whatever it may consist of, however its specific colors may be painted,”

— Cornelius Wencel

As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, "Oh,…

— Andy Summers

“I sat there and my love to him poured out more and more, and, lo, he flew down to a stump, and…

— Agnes Grinstead Anderson

Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio'…

— Robert Stromberg

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I…

— Jane Rule

It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a…

— Nas

“He wanted, in short, a work of art both for what it was in itself and for what it allowed him to…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Rodin picks a mushroom delighted, and shows it to Madame Rodin... "Look," he says excitedly, "and that takes but a single night!…

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

The impresario's job is to pick the right people who can pick the right people. He picks the people who can pick…

— John Kao

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

— Selima Hill

Blest be the art that can immortalize.

— William Cowper

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

— Sylvia Plath

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

— Pharrell Williams

An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

— Michael Jackson

Warhol was proof that you can be revolutionary without being militant.

— Maurizio Cattelan

“If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

— Lawren Harris

“When it comes to art and culture, I like anything that is good.”

— John Seed

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

— Pablo Picasso

You have to challenge yourself about the choices you make as an artist.

— Shura

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

— Paul Gauguin

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

— Rembrandt

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every man is a painter and the sculptor of his own life.

— Pacifiersucker

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

— Mason Cooley