Artist Quotes · Page 295

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

— Edgar Degas

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

— Langston Hughes

The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.

— Haris Pasovic

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

— Eric Hoffer

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

— Fernando Pessoa

I do Xeroxes of my past collections and then I draw over them to see where I'll go next.

— Rick Owens

I think I am the type of artist that, time and time again, either people love or don't know about.

— Raheem DeVaughn

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

— Brandon Boyd

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture,…

— Russell Simmons

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now.…

— Emmy Rossum

I have a lot left inside. I believe my art will last 500 years, 1,000 years and forever. For me, art is…

— Yayoi Kusama

When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By…

— Robin Thicke

... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand…

— Gerhard Richter

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful,…

— Elizabeth Bishop

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God…

— Jonathan Winters

The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an…

— Richard Jefferies

Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.

— Romeo Santos

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you…

— Nick Bantock

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

— Paul Laseau

I always loved music, but I didn't know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference.

— India Arie

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

— John Feldmann

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

— Truman Capote

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

— Steven Pressfield

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

— John Constable

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…

— Roger Scruton

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

— Brett Weston

Art is supposed to change and grow and accord with the times. It seems perfect to me that we have a period…

— Claudia Jessie

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, 'Look at my awesome work.'

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

— Francis Bacon

I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is…

— Banks

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

— Jenova Chen

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's…

— Ken Danby

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects…

— Michael Ondaatje

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

— Joe Torre

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

— Banksy

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to…

— Arthur Boyd

I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement…

— Bryson Tiller

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you…

— Rokia Traore

I love when an artist can stand by themselves and play their guitar and hold a crowd, but I also love bells…

— Kelsea Ballerini