Artist Quotes · Page 266

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

— Anonymous

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

— Solomon R. Guggenheim

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

— Elia Kazan

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

— Paul Mellon

Life's a canvas you're an artist, Paint a picture of a garden then go and marvel at the harvest you created from…

— Anonymous

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

— Marcel Duchamp

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

— Pierre de Ronsard

“I wanted to paint a picture, in indelible print, across the canvass of my heart.”

— Suman Pokhrel

“Advancing towards a person’s dreams with confidence enables a person to move beyond restrictive boundaries and meet with uncommon success. Liberated from…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the…

— John Berger

I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what…

— Anh Do

Many writers and artists portrayed the poor sympathetically, and even fought on their behalf, but they themselves were not of that class.…

— Luc Sante

Museums and galleries do recruit art historians, but they are overwhelmingly white and middle class, or else from abroad. They understandably fret…

— Munira Mirza

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a…

— John Carney

My songs are not angry or bitter, because I am not bitter. I'm hopeful, and as an artist I have to be,…

— Gulzar

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

— Lukas Foss

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

— Oscar Wilde

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

— Ralph Steadman

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

— Mary Heilmann

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

— Annaleigh Ashford

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

— Patricia Briggs

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

— Paul Smith

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Beyonce's the kind of artist where you're not gonna see it till it's right.

— Ne-Yo

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

— Alexander Calder

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

— Joseph Conrad

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

— Masaaki Hatsumi

To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English…

— Liu Dan

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

— David Cronenberg

It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

— James Bay

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

— Yann Martel

“Artist or no-artist, I can't pass up a piece of fried chicken when I see one.”

— Jack Kerouac

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had…

— Gauri Khan

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know…

— Alison Lurie

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

— Pablo Picasso

“A monochrome Jackson Pollock," Jane says, and then tells Tiny, "We gotta bolt. This band is like a root canal sans painkiller".”

— John Green

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

— William Morris

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

— John F. Kennedy