Artist Quotes · Page 307

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

— Matthew Collings

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

— Jeff Dunham

How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

— Anne Clark

Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.

— Larry Gagosian

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

— Egon Friedell

I think that BENEE definitely has this newfound confidence in me where I love to do whatever I want and have fun…

— Benee

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

— Petra Collins

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must…

— Henri Matisse

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to…

— Tavares Strachan

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in…

— Caio Fonseca

If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he…

— Walter Gropius

Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im…

— Dan Colen

I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd…

— John Prine

If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase…

— David Steindl-Rast

As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best…

— Auguste Rodin

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

— Eric Maisel

Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.

— Eric Maisel

I grew up being an artist, but also rock-climbing and traveling the world and teaching my kids.

— Jason Momoa

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

— Nathan Goldstein

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

— Alan Moore

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to…

— Ezra Pound

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though…

— James Whistler

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

— Richard Armitage

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that…

— Ossie Davis

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

— Jackson Pollock

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

— Barnett Newman

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

— Claire Bloom

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to…

— Willa Cather

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

— Anthony Braxton

One thing I can bring to this as second lady is making people aware of what art therapy is and how it…

— Karen Pence

Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

— Wayne Coyne

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going…

— Michelangelo

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

— Matthew Quick

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

— Bruno Munari

Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

— Franz Grillparzer

I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.

— Marcel Duchamp