Artist Quotes · Page 238

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.”

— Chrystal Evans Hurst

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

— Federico Fellini

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

— Patrick Ness

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an…

— George Bernard Shaw

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.”

— Jeff Ryan

Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting…

— Cliff Chiang

Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

— Gerard Way

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it…

— Robert Beverly Hale

Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born…

— Willa Cather

The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist…

— Wendy Ewald

I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it…

— Gerhard Richter

Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come…

— Michael Milken

What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you…

— Nikki Sixx

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical…

— Edward Steichen

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

— Louis Aragon

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists…

— Henri Matisse

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

— Joe Bradley

“here it was the whole world wrapped inside my arms And I let it all slip away”

— Rascal Flatts

There's nothing wrong with using the money that you earn to be daring and buy art that you love or that you…

— Yusaku Maezawa

People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it.

— Sam Messer

As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something…

— Tom Cruise

Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated…

— John French Sloan

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

— Golda Meir

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

— Hans Hofmann

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological…

— Anish Kapoor

That's really special when you can watch a work of art change the world.

— Ariana DeBose

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

— Richard Florida

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

— Leonard Shlain

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

— Marcel Duchamp

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

— Andre Simon

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

— Cassandra Wilson

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of…

— Paul Valery

I believe I'm an artist that just shines live - it's just something that happens.

— Peter Frampton

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

— John Chamberlain

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great…

— Robert Redford

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

— Igor Stravinsky