Artist Quotes · Page 241

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small…

— Howard Hodgkin

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

— Robert Henri

“Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author.”

— Sonia Rumzi

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or…

— James Howard Kunstler

I think it's important to evolve and make a different record every time as an artist.

— Orianthi

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

— Annie Lennox

Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.

— Michelle Grabner

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

— Albert Camus

“Finally, every society develops a system of aesthetic standards that get manifested in everything from decorative art, music, and dance to the…

— David Livermore

Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical…

— Michael Gungor

You know, with the funeral home, that is my artistic outlet where I can paint and play with science and bodies and…

— Phaedra Parks

If an artist knows you have respect for their talent - which I have to feel to my core, to sign them…

— Clive Davis

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem…

— Maya Angelou

Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close…

— Ellsworth Kelly

“You love a job, no matter how hard it is, it’s still easy. Not sure, never studied up on the guy, could…

— Kristen Ashley

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,…

— James Keller

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

— Anna Deavere Smith

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

— Benjamin Spock

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art.…

— Nicole McKay

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

— Edith Schaeffer

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

— Georges St-Pierre

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

— Franz Kafka

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

— Ralph H. Baer

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and…

— LL Cool J

I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them.

— Justin Beckett

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

— Hokusai

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

— Paul Dano

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

— Ernst Levy

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When I got into high school, my favorite artist was definitely Janet Jackson.

— Rutina Wesley

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to…

— Ariel Pink

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

— Aristotle

“The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.”

— William Faulkner

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of...

— Michelangelo

I quite like Jackson Pollock, and have a real gut reaction to it, so it does whatever it does to me.

— Denis Lawson

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with…

— Bernard Arnault

When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues.

— John Kani

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without…

— Frida Kahlo

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

— Johan Huizinga