Artist Quotes · Page 277

“Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of…

— Irshad Manji

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's…

— Frank Gehry

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

— H. G. Wells

Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.

— Charles James

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

— Gina Bellman

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

— John Legend

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

— Woody Allen

Paintings, people really don't understand... They don't really get paintings. Quilts they do understand because everybody has a quilt in their house.

— Faith Ringgold

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I…

— Al Pacino

“Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot…

— John Berger

The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other…

— Frank Gehry

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went…

— Mick Farren

Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward…

— John Mellencamp

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually…

— Carolyn Kizer

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

I'm a lifelong martial artist and to have an arena to test my skills is essential for me.

— Dan Hardy

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

— Scott McClanahan

Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.

— Stacie Cunningham

I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.

— Yuna

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human…

— Lin Yutang

You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

— Larry Gagosian

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.

— Kojiro Tomita

“The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host.”

— Gerard de Marigny

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

— Marcel Proust

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

— Pablo Picasso

Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

— Becky G

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

— John Ruskin

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

— Condola Rashad

“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself…

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

— Mary Augusta Ward

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

— James Purdy

“mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only”

— Lily King

Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

— Viola Davis

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied;…

— Charles F Kettering

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only…

— Irving Stone

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

— Graham Sutherland