Artist Quotes · Page 244

“You can't make the good old days come back just by painting pictures of them. That kind of stuff is dead now…

— in the late 1960s Norman Rockwell

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

— Claude Monet

“...the line between art and garbage can be thin. Sometimes even artists cannot see it.”

— The Million Dollar Hotel

“Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

I have several plan Bs: I want to become a sailor; I like to draw; I would love to learn many things,…

— Audrey Tautou

“Its beautiful when we express our emotions with words, and art. Rather than allowing our ego to destroy it.”

— Zachary Koukol

I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

— Travis Scott

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

— Bruno Heller

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep…

— Walter Brueggemann

When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there…

— Vincent Van Gogh

... And we talk it out. Lately, I've had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss…

— Stan Lee

I would love to see more dialogue around the "responsibilities" of art consumers - how can audiences better financially support artists we…

— Vivek Shraya

The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't…

— Bill Vaughan

I was the only one to go to university, and the last thing my dad wanted was for me to be an…

— Sean Scully

I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls…

— Anthony Bourdain

Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.

— Crane Wilbur

Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

— Kehinde Wiley

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

— Madonna Ciccone

Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.

— Thomas Huxley

Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.

— Lily Cole

I've always drawn a lot. I like the idea of turning a 2-D sketch into a 3-D thing very quickly. And clothing…

— Giles Deacon

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living'…

— Egon Schiele

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

— Jeffrey Lewis

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

— Jules Verne

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have…

— Gerhard Richter

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of…

— David Elliott

Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

— Rene Huyghe

With streaming, everything is focused on singles. That means an artist's depth doesn't have the chance to shine through.

— Joe Hisaishi

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

I've never seen an artist have a connection with their fans like TwentyOnePilots!

— Steve Harwell

Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.

— Fred Williams

I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.

— Meredith Brooks

I didn't expect to become an artist. I was not comfortable going out on the road.

— Todd Rundgren

I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as…

— Natalie Maines

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

— Randy Travis

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

— Anonymous

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

— T. S. Eliot

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could…

— Richard Billingham