Artist Quotes · Page 246

“Libby stood at the bar like something that had been hastily added at the end of a painting that hasn't quite dried…

— Scarlett Thomas

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

— George Benson

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

— Wendy Carlos

“Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.”

— Ayn Rand

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

— Arsene Wenger

I felt in college I wanted tattoos. I'm really glad I didn't. I was broke. I would've been bargain shopping for a…

— T.J. Dillashaw

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

— Kate Bush

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what…

— Al Jourgensen

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to…

— Ronald Reagan

“I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse.…

— Robert Henri

I know artists that have tried for a long time in the Christian industry and then they were on a TV show…

— Anthony Evans

“The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the…

— Fernando Pessoa

After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s,…

— Robert Bateman

When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid…

— Milford Zornes

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much.…

— Tom Robbins

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the…

— Glenn Frey

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

— Giorgetto Giugiaro

I'm trying to find ways to transform parts of the art world into something more productive or more satisfying.

— Hito Steyerl

“Paint yourself with the colors of your love. Hang your paintings on the walls of your desires.”

— Debasish Mridha

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

— Julian Green

If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops.

— Cornelia Parker

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not…

— Arne Glimcher

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

— Jeffrey Lewis

I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.

— Gavin Creel

I had earlier done a few paintings on Durga because I am fascinated by her.

— Sushmita Sen

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

— Benjamin Walker

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

— Evelyn Underhill

No painting can tell the truth of a single instant; no snapshot can do anything else.

— Anonymous

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and…

— Clement of Alexandria

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

— Gertrude Stein

“But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.”

— The New Yorker

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

— Audrey Flack

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being…

— Jim Shaw

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

— Josiah Wedgwood

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

— Lucian Freud

Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird's eye view, it's the Indigenous way of storytelling.

— Aaron Pedersen

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

— Tracy Chevalier