Artist Quotes · Page 305

“I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.”

— Don DeLillo

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

— Raymond Carver

I'm a rapper and an artist, but I'm a human. That's what people forget. That's why I try to make them remember.

— Rod Wave

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

— Lukas Foss

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version…

— Martin Parr

“I almost can't believe you won first place, because the painting deserves it so much, and people who deserve to win hardly…

— Natalie Standiford

I actually love physics, but art is where I thought I could make a difference for my country.

— Dasha Zhukova

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor,…

— Ava DuVernay

“Some paintings become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found…

— Aldo Leopold

Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see…

— Dennis Prager

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art,…

— Allan Kaprow

Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight…

— Pablo Picasso

What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the…

— Seth Godin

“When I was in art school, we were looking one day at a slide of some great fifteenth century painting, and one…

— Paul Graham

The point of life that I'm currently at is a 'me right now' type of attitude. I am 37 years-old, my son…

— Kelly Price

“Time is a sculptor's knife, attacking the soft clay to reveal the hard edges beneath.”

— James Pratt

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

— Bruce Lee

Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.

— Sydney Banks

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what…

— G-Eazy

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

— Zadie Smith

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

— Raymond Pettibon

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a…

— Norman Mailer

I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think…

— Janelle Monae

Too many people are worried about having results NOW...the Mona Lisa was not created in a day. Perfection takes time.

— Anonymous

I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.

— Kevin Dillon

Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when…

— Dan Fogelberg

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso”

— Edward B. Burger

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

— Howard Pyle

Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.

— Barbara Mason

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

— Anonymous

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

— Tony Bouza

I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second.

— Jenny Lewis

“Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.

— Natalia Makarova

It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

— Marina Abramovic

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the…

— Soulja Boy

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his…

— Orson Welles