Artist Quotes · Page 248

I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.

— Paloma Picasso

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

— Robert Engman

“there is an artist in everyone. A dream is, after all, a little work of art, and there are new dreams every…

— Jostein Gaarder

You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

— Anonymous

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

— Hokusai

I've got a pot in my studio that is just a bitter rant against the art world. I call it my Dorian…

— Grayson Perry

“Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for ‘art,’ because for Indians everything is art.”

— Huston Smith

We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work…

— Rob Nilsson

It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet…

— Henry Miller

“She only modelled for him once,' Max said stubbornly, leaning the canvases back against the wall and replacing the sheet. 'Once, twice…

— Robert Goddard

Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing…

— William Baziotes

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with…

— Antoni Tapies

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether…

— Edvard Munch

It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why…

— Jonah Lehrer

“Whereas art critics are ready to accept-indeed are looking for-the new fabrication of a consistent visual language, architectural critics, like the general…

— Charles Jencks

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of…

— Robert Regis Dvorak

When art is about craftsmanship, then guys like me don't make it as artists.

— David Berman

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the…

— Victor Hugo

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making -…

— Peter Zumthor

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

— Alain de Botton

Many artists who sign deals in the US and UK get the benefit of worldwide promotion and have a better shot at…

— Wendy Starland

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

— Francois Delsarte

I don't feel like my sound is similar to any female artist that's out right now, so I definitely feel like we…

— Megan Thee Stallion

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

— Ian McDiarmid

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

— Carlisle Floyd

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.

— Annie Dillard

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

— Domenico Gnoli

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

— Mary Gauthier

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

— Eric Gibbons

“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.”

— Edmund Wilson

The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art.

— Michelle Dean

“Just as art is art regardless of the colors, a human being is so regardless of race.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to…

— Mika

Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.

— Peter Sunde

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

— David Mamet

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

— Camille Henrot

“A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.”

— Robert Rauschenberg

Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

— Frank Ocean