Artist Quotes · Page 284

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

— Euan Uglow

We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so…

— Bobbi Brown

Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets…

— Caroline Polachek

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

— Semir Zeki

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's…

— Maurizio Cattelan

Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

— Emily Carr

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

— Edvard Munch

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of…

— Dizzee Rascal

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I don't refer to myself as a sculptor, but I use the word "visual artist." I prefer that, because that leaves the…

— Michael C. McMillen

“Her flat looked like a mess –a coloring mess. Once you enter it, you can feel like a person had eaten all…

— Basma Salem

The highest thing people can say about an artist is, 'You know, I felt he or she was singing right to me.'…

— Steve Ross

Whenever possible, I try to get a professional to do my makeup, because the idea of putting together a flawless look intimidates…

— Amanda Crew

In terms of my development as an artist, playing Professor Sprout wasn't all that important because she is well within my capabilities…

— Miriam Margolyes

For screenwriting, when you're writing, you're talking to hundreds - hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you're saying. When you're…

— Travis Beacham

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out…

— Tyler Farr

The biggest success for an artist is to know that his work is being recognised around the world.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

— Justin Townes Earle

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

— Danielle LaPorte

The money from every unit being sold is what I feel every artist should see.

— Rakim

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy…

— Robert Henri

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Art is only art when you're truly happy with it. Especially with what we went through to do this record.

— Skrillex

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

— Giorgio Moroder

“We make art. We do not feel the need to cut things apart to see what they're made of.”

— Holly Black

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

— Al Yankovic

I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

— Craig McCracken

There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.

— Fred Armisen

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

— Kay WalkingStick

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

— T. S. Eliot

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the…

— Anonymous

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

— Kalup Linzy

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

— Robert Henri

“I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that…

— Nikki Rowe

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

— Leo Tolstoy

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

— Neil Gaiman

That's my whole point as an artist - I'm trying to get you to turn a page.

— Tom King

I am lucky to have found an artistic companion in Anurag; there is a sense of belonging.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.

— Badshah