Artist Quotes · Page 308

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

— Jennifer Estep

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

— Laz Alonso

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

— Kara DioGuardi

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

— Jamie Hewlett

Just as sport can, art has the capacity to cross so many boundaries like education, race and religion.

— Susie Wolff

It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.

— Ian Harding

“We all have our alloted portions of black and white paint; how we lay it on is a question of temperament.”

— Ewart Grogan

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

— Pablo Picasso

“some activists and theorists treat aesthetic objects and creative works as displaying a political potentiality missing from classes, parties, and unions. This…

— Anonymous

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art…

— Elizabeth Peyton

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint…

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She…

— Haruki Murakami

There's no such thing as 'sissy bounce.' We don't separate it here in New Orleans at all. It's just bounce music. Just…

— Big Freedia

All of the artists did such a beautiful job I can’t thank them enough. I’m just honored that 'God Only Knows' was…

— Brian Wilson

“You should understand that I did not want you to read a painting. I/ wanted you to bathe in it before words…

— John Yau

“The artist's transcendence is achieved through success at diagnosing and naming the maladies of the age. Artists tell a different sort of…

— Gregory E. Ganssle David LaRocca

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

— Simone Weil

To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic…

— Seth Godin

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

— Lawrence Durrell

I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process.

— Kehinde Wiley

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this…

— Nicole Appleton

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

— Fede Alvarez

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

— Pierre Soulages

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

— Kurt Vonnegut

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

— Fernando Botero

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

— Anonymous

We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.

— Kim Young-ha

“It was a work of art. It was better than that. It was a work of craft.”

— Terry Pratchett

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does…

— Leo Howard

“She wanted children and considered having them a "privilege," but art also "was a privilege given to me and I had to…

— Jan Greenberg

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

— Salvador Dali

I'm not like most artists or most CEOs - I'm a CEO first, then an artist.

— Young Dolph

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

— Pierre Alechinsky

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

— Edgar Degas

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

— Joseph Beuys

“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

— Robert Crumb