Artist Quotes · Page 232

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist's website.

— Tom DeLonge

Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

— Questlove

I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.

— Mark Rothko

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

— Cheryl Richardson

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

— Etta James

Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.

— Mary Morrissey

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

— David Byrne

I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached…

— Billy Zane

I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I…

— Sturgill Simpson

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point…

— Joshua Reynolds

Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed…

— Marc Jacobs

This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer…

— Gerhard Richter

What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour…

— Michelangelo

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t…

— Frank Gehry

It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat,…

— Jacques Maritain

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self…

— Hettie Jones

I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively.

— Cornelia Parker

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I think every artist wants to create something, on their own, without any boundaries.

— Amaal Mallik

After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.

— Tennessee Williams

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

— Philip Guston

I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.

— Mark Foster

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

As an artist, you can work to make money, or you can be an artist who thinks about their legacy.

— Anthony Ramos

The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

— William Blake

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

— Paul Robeson

I have always wanted to have a cultural centre where people can sort of have a community of artists and like-minded people…

— Kiran Rao

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

— E. L. Doctorow

“He’s the foreground of the painting that is your life together. You’re the background. You like it that way.”

— N.K. Jemisin

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

— Matt Smith

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

— Robert Reynolds

“There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.”

— Henry Moore

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is…

— Jeanette Winterson

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.

— Larry Gagosian