Artist Quotes · Page 289

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

As always, my influences are diverse and not what you might expect from a 'heavy metal' artist.

— Paul Gilbert

“They say all art—whether books, music, or visual—is a reaction to other art.”

— Blake Crouch

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or…

— George Bernard Shaw

Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute.

— Robert Lepage

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have…

— Teena Marie

I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.

— Oscar Isaac

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

— Daniel Dennett

I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political…

— Carrie Brownstein

“Artists are the architects of our future. The messages they deliver through music, film and television are what guides popular culture. If…

— TAMMY (McCrary

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line.…

— Pablo Picasso

I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought,…

— Guillaume Apollinaire

[Johnny Depp] a wonderful artist, and such a talented person. I got along with him, splendidly. He's charming and wonderful to work…

— Amber Heard

2017 saw a slew of big pop and hip-hop records, a number of breakout female singer-songwriters and all-girl bands, and the return…

— Elizabeth Flock

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be…

— Oscar Wilde

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms…

— Robertson Davies

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

— Duane Michals

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

— William Hazlitt

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an…

— W. Earl Brown

If you're an artist and you have dreams don't stop fighting because dreams really do come true.

— Dahvie Vanity

“All great art is almost never received well initially; don't quit before the world opens its eyes.”

— Gregor Collins

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective…

— Ziggy Marley

Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial…

— Ma Yansong

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

— Takeshi Kitano

To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.

— Wil Wheaton

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

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

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

— Dominic Smith

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

— Dave Barry