Artist Quotes · Page 250

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

— Tyga

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

— Vladimir Nabokov

24 hours a day, I'm thinking about what we can do with this artist, what I can do myself over here, and…

— Jay Park

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at…

— Solomon R. Guggenheim

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

— George Lucas

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic…

— Seth Godin

I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process.

— Kehinde Wiley

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this…

— Nicole Appleton

Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the…

— Barry S. Strauss

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by…

— Rita Mae Brown

However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but…

— Vincent Van Gogh

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know…

— John Lennon

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it…

— Rufus Wainwright

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with…

— W. Somerset Maugham

In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is…

— Charles Baudelaire

I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books. They're turning out, I don't know,…

— Michael Uslan

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

— Lawrence Durrell

To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.

— Kim Young-ha

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

— Pierre Soulages

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

— Fede Alvarez

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

— Fernando Botero

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

— Anonymous

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

— Salvador Dali

“It was a work of art. It was better than that. It was a work of craft.”

— Terry Pratchett

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does…

— Leo Howard

“She wanted children and considered having them a "privilege," but art also "was a privilege given to me and I had to…

— Jan Greenberg

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

— Pierre Alechinsky

I'm not like most artists or most CEOs - I'm a CEO first, then an artist.

— Young Dolph

“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

— Robert Crumb

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

— Edgar Degas

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

— Joseph Beuys

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

— Thomas Mars

Art is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it!

— Rick Sutter

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must…

— Paola Antonelli