Artist Quotes · Page 262

We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand,

— Thomas Kinkade

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

— St. Lucia

My submission game is always on point, it's always there. But to be a better mixed martial artist, I need to be…

— Gilbert Burns

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

— Fela Kuti

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

— Luis Fonsi

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

— Oscar Wilde

Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.

— George Clooney

If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.

— Ma Yansong

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social,…

— Jean Tinguely

“As creators and consumers they fill the field of pop culture today, which is an economic enterprise and only by accident occasionally…

— Dallas Willard

But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen…

— Fred Astaire

Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to…

— Fabrizio Moreira

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our…

— Rico Lebrun

Making art is dealing with people on your own terms. The ideal way of using people is using them like clay, but…

— Lucas Samaras

I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is…

— Ellsworth Kelly

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

— David Hockney

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

— Vik Muniz

What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.

— Eli Broad

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

— Franz Werfel

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

— Oscar Wilde

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

— Andre Holland

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

— Robert Genn

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

— Kirsten Dunst

“Life is a beautiful canvas, paint it with passion and diligence. Don't scribble on it with regrets.”

— Priyansha Vashi

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough…

— Claude Monet

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have…

— James Pearse Connelly

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

— Miranda July

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

— Emile Zola

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

— Brian Selznick

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

— Sol LeWitt

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

— Liza Campbell

“I draw a girl without a face, drawing somebody else’s face onto her own reflection.”

— Akemi Dawn Bowman

“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked…

— Christian Bobin

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

— Guy Berryman

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to…

— Michael Haneke