Artist Quotes · Page 229

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

— Simon Cowell

“Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or…

— Michael Muhammad Knight

“mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only”

— Lily King

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

— James Purdy

Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

— Viola Davis

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

— Mary Augusta Ward

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw…

— Kenneth Tynan

In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service…

— George Grosz

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close,…

— Michele Cassou

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just…

— Neill Blomkamp

The true essence of Chinese culture is sophistication, refinement, the spirit of poetry. The spirit of ink painting and calligraphy lives on…

— Michael Chow

I feel like I'm aging against my will, so I'm constantly trying to use my own artwork as an escapist fantasy to…

— Ethel Cain

Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give…

— James Elkins

“sacred is the task of the artist when he undertakes to paint the life of the People. Falsification here is far more…

— George Eliot

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied;…

— Charles F Kettering

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only…

— Irving Stone

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

— Graham Sutherland

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

— Marcel Proust

“The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host.”

— Gerard de Marigny

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.

— Kojiro Tomita

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

— Pablo Picasso

“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself…

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

— Condola Rashad

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

— John Ruskin

Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

— Becky G

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

— Scott McClanahan

I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.

— Yuna

Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.

— Stacie Cunningham

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human…

— Lin Yutang

You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

— Larry Gagosian

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

— H. G. Wells

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

— Gina Bellman

Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.

— Charles James

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

— John Legend

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

— Woody Allen

I'm a lifelong martial artist and to have an arena to test my skills is essential for me.

— Dan Hardy