Artist Quotes · Page 255

Just because I'm a recording artist doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Because I had to grow.

— Lizz Wright

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in…

— John Heartfield

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

— James Whistler

I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out…

— Zayn Malik

“at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of…

— Ray Bradbury

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

— Steven Pressfield

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I always say this to the young chefs and mean it: The customer is excited, he says you are an artist, but…

— Andre Soltner

I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it.…

— Cy Twombly

Collecting contemporary art I started with some of the younger artists. Although, having a son who's an artist, I was hesitant-I think…

— Laurence Graff

2015 has been a crazy year for me, and Spotify have supported me right from the start. It's an honour to be…

— Kygo

The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting…

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an…

— Roland Barthes

The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for…

— Sinead O'Connor

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

— Wayne Thiebaud

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

— Ariel Pink

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

— David R. Brower

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

— Yoko Ono

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of…

— Oscar Wilde

“In an art museum, you shall realise how banal and how ordinary the life outside!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

— Harold Rosenberg

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

— Pablo Picasso

“Art that puts itself in dependence on orthodoxy,even under the most progressive doctrine,is doomed to failure.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into…

— Mervyn Levy

“The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.”

— Jostein Gaarder

I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love…

— John Lennon

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

— Gene Roddenberry

“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.”

— Donald E. Knuth

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

— Keanu Reeves

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

— John Paul Caponigro

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

— Nathan Sawaya

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

— Oscar Wilde

Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup.

— Anonymous

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

— Ai Weiwei

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible…

— Jamila Woods