Artist Quotes · Page 272

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

— Roy Lichtenstein

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel…

— T. Allen Lawson

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

— Steven Soderbergh

“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent”

— Oscar Wilde

“The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.”

— Dominic Smith

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

— Robyn

“How much distance should there be between art and artist? I’d say no more than a lifetime.”

— Jarod Kintz

Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of…

— John F. Carlson

I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who…

— Saul Leiter

The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with…

— Rheta Childe Dorr

“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details…

— Ian McDonald

“My object in The Prince was to show defeated Italy a model of her savior, a man as perfect in the bold…

— Michael Ennis

“We may not have the power to profess our gifts as the artist does, and yet we come to recognize, and in…

— Lewis Hyde

I think that you know you have experts in fields who spend their life studying one thing. When an event goes on…

— John Buffalo Mailer

My fans - I hate the word fans...my supporters - it's an international following that isn't from being in London and existing…

— Kesh

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

— Alexander Eliot

I am not a big artist myself. I am, I guess, a somewhat successful songwriter now, but I think that my value…

— Tobias Forge

I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper.

— Redman

I am on a mural in Belfast with 'Floating up the Lagan in a bubble' on it. You know you have made…

— Adrian Dunbar

Four Tet, a.k.a. Kieran Hebden, is a U.K. electronica artist whose diverse tastes have helped fuel a lengthy discography.

— Anthony Fantano

You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis.

— Dave Barry

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

— Josh O'Connor

Even as an art teacher and someone very involved in the arts, I never knew what art therapy even was.

— Karen Pence

I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

— John David Washington

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for…

— Tyga

“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to…

— Rolf Harris

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

— David Gilmour

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual…

— Wes Nisker

I'm really about seeing people and art for what they are. Like, seeing people as humans and seeing art.

— Rich Brian

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,…

— John Gardner

Street art, unlike graffiti, adds to the environment and is a positive experience for the artist and community.

— Ben Eine

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could…

— Damien Hirst

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

— Bruce Pavitt

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

— Paul G

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

— Glenn Ligon

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

— Gerhard Richter

“I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy. I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.”

— Lana Del Rey

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not…

— Marjane Satrapi