Artist Quotes · Page 227

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

— Pablo Picasso

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

— Anonymous

“Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the…

— Piet Hein

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

— Dale Earnhardt, Jr

“You don't go missing in a museum- you just get temporarily absorbed by the walls.”

— Neal Shusterman

I wouldn't be where I am without people giving me an opportunity and a platform. I feel like that's what I should…

— Jimmie Allen

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

— Jasper Johns

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

— Ed Sheeran

“I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There…

— Sherwood Anderson

I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it…

— Arshile Gorky

When I have an exhibition, I usually arrange it so that if people want to, they can spend two hours there. That…

— Tracey Emin

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose…

— George Henry Lewes

It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for…

— Charles Hazlewood

I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model…

— Alek Wek

For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris.…

— Alan Jay Lerner

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

— Henri Matisse

It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!

— Tove Lo

I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard,…

— Liz Prince

I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and…

— Morgan Parker

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

— Bubba Sparxxx

“A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being”

— Jessie Burton

I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.

— Lecrae

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

— Joey Comeau

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

— Paul Robeson

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

— Man Ray

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to…

— William Harvey

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

— Vanna Bonta

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're…

— Jeff Tweedy

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

— Edgar Degas

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the…

— Cecily Brown

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

— Domino Kirke

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

— Claes Oldenburg

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an…

— Urs Fischer

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

— Frank Auerbach

I knew I wanted to be an artist early on, but I decided to seriously pursue the profession when I auditioned for…

— Corey Hawkins

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

— Oscar Wilde

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

— Henry Moore