Artist Quotes · Page 261

If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.

— Tavi Gevinson

The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.

— Eric Maisel

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

— Edward Hopper

The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.

— Daniel Levitin

Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made…

— Dries van Noten

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

— Marcel Duchamp

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

— Malcolm Cowley

“Canvas, then you must define the Bitmap upon which drawing will actually be performed. The”

— Anonymous

The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot,…

— Jacob Hashimoto

There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from…

— Adrienne Rich

“Rigid geometry forced in varied curves is "mother," / is "nature," is systematic violation." Muy Bueno. / This device is for you,…

— Christian Peet

Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And…

— Marilyn Manson

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I…

— Brian Selznick

The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner…

— Eric Maisel

Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice…

— Nicole Krauss

Yeah, I feel as an artist, making a movie is the top of the food chain - that's the peak, the climax…

— Julia Fox

“I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters,”

— Pete Hamill

Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul.

— Sergei Bongart

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from…

— Henry Moore

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

— Marina Abramovic

Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.

— Andrew McAleer

I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?

— John Ross Bowie

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by…

— Anonymous

There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer…

— Ken Danby

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

I can paint what's goin through my mind, racing against myself but I'm a couple steps behind.

— Drake

“PAINT it! It's called Passion,Ambition,Inspiration,Notion and Transformation.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

“But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.”

— Chip Kidd

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

— Kim Cattrall

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

— Harvey Fierstein

It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.

— Hilary Swank

It's very hard for an artist to negotiate their fees. My job is to act; my manager's job should be to handle…

— Mahira Khan

The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

— Floyd Cooper

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

— David Hockney

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

— Jackson Pollock

First we draw what we see; then we draw what we know; finally we see what we know.

— Robert Beverly Hale

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling…

— Scott Weiland