Artist Quotes · Page 243

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with…

— Richard Schmid

Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is…

— Ala Bashir

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and…

— Wynona Mulcaster

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

— Ai Weiwei

“The owner doesn’t ask questions about where the painting has been. He’s just happy to have it hanging on his wall again.”

— Daniel Silva

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

— David Hockney

Trying to be an artist here in Nashville, a female artist specifically, you've got to figure out what you can do that's…

— Lainey Wilson

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint.…

— Francis Bacon

Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence…

— Irving Kaufman

I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to…

— L. S. Lowry

Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in,…

— Poo Bear

Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of…

— Margaret Atwood

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the…

— Robert Olen Butler

The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide…

— Joshua Reynolds

I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme.

— Phil Lord

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks…

— Julia Cameron

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

— Tim Crouch

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

— Alan Arkin

To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is…

— Ai Weiwei

“For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in…

— Cath Crowley

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking…

— Alija Izetbegovic

I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.

— Estelle

Love educates us about art. Art consoles us from lost love. Our great loves are a condition of our future love.

— Celine Sciamma

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of…

— Jean Genet

The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art.

— Nikki Sixx

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

— Peter Doig

“...for all art is one, as Kipling has written, and your art chooses you, not you the art.”

— Michael Powell

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.

— Wesley Morris

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

— Alison Bechdel

I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

— Haley Bennett

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur…

— Biz Stone

I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music,…

— R. Kelly

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

— Andres Serrano

Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.

— Al Hirschfeld

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

— Beverly Pepper

Working with younger artists kind of tests your judgment. You're not always right, but when you are, it's exciting.

— Larry Gagosian

I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.

— Rondal Partridge