Artist Quotes · Page 298

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I…

— Billy Porter

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

— William Webb

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

— Allen Toussaint

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

— David Lynch

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

— Mark Rothko

“There was a glamor to it, a perfection and a completeness and a symmetry to it like Grecian art.”

— Magaret Mitchell

Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee, because we are not going to allow - people will wake up and…

— Marco Rubio

I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in…

— Kenneth Patchen

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work…

— David Hockney

People should go to the works and experience them. Because just having an idea or picture in mind is absolutely not the…

— Virginia Dwan

Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and…

— David Foster Wallace

I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is…

— Fred Armisen

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge…

— Marshall McLuhan

Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement…

— Dan Hill

I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different.

— Trixie Mattel

“The truth is, the more one knows about Art, the more one values Entertainment.”

— Jessica Zafra

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

— Martin Firrell

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

— Paul Klee

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

— Terry Pratchett

I don't think most people who listen to music are that interested in all the work that goes into making it. It's…

— Max Martin

It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

— Mary Baker Eddy

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

— Tom Wolfe

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

— Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in…

— Claudia Rankine

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be…

— Christopher Willard

My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.

— Ezra Furman

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love…

— Sean Scully

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from…

— Common

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

— Gertrude Stein

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

— John Tenniel

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

— Robert Genn

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

— William Hogarth

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

— Anonymous

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its…

— Barry McGee

'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.

— Simon Rattle

If there's anything I can promise is that I'm gonna paint till the last breath.

— Heart Evangelista

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he…

— David Lynch