Artist Quotes · Page 145

Where does contagion end and art begin?

— Neil Gaiman

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

— Kiki Smith

“Art is what appeals to the a priori.”

— Raheel Farooq

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

— Bret Michaels

Ah, I see. Well that's not too tikcry at all!

— Darold

“Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.”

— Anonymous

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

— Kyle Dunnigan

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

— Nick Hornby

“I’ve never known of a serious artist who was happy. Except maybe Rubens.”

— Chaim Potok

As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of…

— Eric Heisserer

Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

— Pat Steir

“If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore…

— Amit Kalantri

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

— James Whistler

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could…

— N. Scott Momaday

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

— Charlton Heston

The permanence of ink encourages one to "go for it," to try to put the line right where it should be... continued…

— Paul Laseau

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist.…

— Jeanne Moreau

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the…

— Daisaku Ikeda

All my different kinds of artwork have been designed to inspire people to think. They may not always agree with me, but…

— Jello Biafra

“Violence is central in our lives, a constant and unavoidable reality. Experience is not a linear construct moving from one point to…

— Toi Derricotte

Each character represents a different color on the big palette of what this ultimate painting is going to look like, who your…

— Ron Perlman

I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and…

— Michael Jackson

Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl…

— Sophie Blackall

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

— Buffalo Bill

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

— Johan Renck

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

— Joseph Addison

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

— Jeanette Winterson

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

— Andre Derain

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

— Seth Godin

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

— Eugene Ionesco

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

— William Shakespeare

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Art and politics have many things in common.

— Tania Bruguera

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

— Brett Eldredge

I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

— Invader

The entire art system urgently needs a vacation.

— Isa Genzken

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

— Mark Foster

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

— Lorrie Moore