Artist Quotes · Page 309

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

Art is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it!

— Rick Sutter

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

— Thomas Mars

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must…

— Paola Antonelli

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other…

— Jackson Pollock

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

— Petrarch

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one once we grow up.

— Pablo Picasso

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make…

— Diane Ackerman

The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

In comics, my experience has been mostly artists whose visual storytelling chops are either weak or they're more invested in rushing to…

— Christopher Priest

I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else.…

— Jim Woodring

An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises…

— Moby

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of…

— Wayne Thiebaud

“[Soetsu Yanagi's] main criticism of individual craftsmen and modern artists is that they are overproud of their individualism. I think I am…

— Bernard Leach

I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a…

— Wayne White

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the…

— Mark McKinnon

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

— Frank Ocean

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot…

— Jason Alexander

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

— Billy Corgan

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could…

— Herbert Marcuse

Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.

— Robert Genn

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting…

— Martha Graham

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

— Bono

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

— Vivek Shraya

“An artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates.”

— Jean Lescure

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

— Claude Monet

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

— Kerry James Marshall

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to…

— Renata Adler

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

— Jeanette Winterson

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a…

— Walter Darby Bannard

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

— John Maeda

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and…

— Shirley Eaton

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

— Winslow Homer

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

— Childe Hassam

There's a kind of passionate expression in all my pieces. It's just that the nature of the expression takes different forms.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and…

— Ellsworth Kelly

“Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, "once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art.”

— Charles Williams