Artist Quotes · Page 226

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

— Berkeley Breathed

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

— Natalie Babbitt

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

— Rebecca West

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

— Pablo Picasso

Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.

— Claes Oldenburg

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a…

— Philip Guston

My go-go dancing was not your typical go-go dancing: I really was doing performance art. I would do dramatic, elaborate lyricals across…

— Annaleigh Ashford

People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole…

— Julie Mehretu

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough…

— William Goldman

I think it's important to have confidence, but then it's also important to try to try something new, to leave your comfort…

— Kadir Nelson

“Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of…

— Edward Gorey

The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male…

— Margaret Atwood

Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where…

— Joseph Raffael

If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.

— Kristen Wiig

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

— Shirin Neshat

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only…

— Danny Fox

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

— John Lydon

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

— Rosanne Cash

“I'm painting color squares. One square - one color. That's what I paint.”

— Nigel Tomm

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

— Jean-Luc Godard

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just…

— Jerry Saltz

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

— John F. Kennedy

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

— Anonymous

“A true artist creates art because they have a passion and desire to do so.”

— Anne-Rae Vasquez

I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about…

— David Shrigley

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will…

— Van Cliburn

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end…

— Eric Drooker

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

— Georges Rouault

The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.

— Jordan Gavaris

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they…

— Jeff Koons

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

— Gloria Steinem

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image…

— Nir Hod

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

— Josef Albers