Artist Quotes · Page 293

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

— Chuck Jones

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

— Sylvester Stallone

When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone…

— Bill Griffith

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

— Lauryn Hill

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

— Arne Glimcher

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist…

— Jared Leto

I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

— Charli XCX

Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you…

— Wu Guanzhong

Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born,…

— Hans Hofmann

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and…

— Carine Roitfeld

I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is…

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what…

— Adam Granduciel

A lot of people, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry and a lot of people have written for other people, and of course…

— Bonnie McKee

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of…

— Thomas Browne

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent…

— Vivienne Westwood

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

— Cyril Connolly

If a character artiste accepts too many small roles his career dies a slow death.

— Mukesh Rishi

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

— Donald Judd

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

— Jeff Koons

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

— Brian Chesky

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

— Ben Nicholson

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

— Carl Andre

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of…

— Esaias Tegner

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

— Brad Holland

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

— Big Freedia

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.

— Osamu Dazai

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

— Madonna Ciccone

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

— Jim Rowe

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

— Chris Martin

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

— Criss Jami

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

— Olivia Newton-John

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

— Richard Clayderman

For me, one of the jobs of an artist is to try to see changes taking place.

— Trevor Paglen

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

— Joe Bradley