Artist Quotes · Page 316

“Some of his pieces were quite good. Others-especially when he'd been drinking-looked like he'd accidentally spilled paint on canvas.”

— Richelle Mead

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or…

— Tom Brady

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

— Max Ernst

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

— Aldo Leopold

You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.

— Sarah Kay

It's easier to think outside the box if you don't draw one around yourself.

— Anonymous

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

— Donald Woods Winnicott

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

— Gina Rodriguez

art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe…

— Margaret Atwood

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he…

— Henri Matisse

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will…

— Henri Matisse

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter…

— Joni Mitchell

I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere…

— Farah Diba

“In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the…

— Jennifer Birkett

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To get out of desperate situation can only be done by education and by openness for Indonesians. Everybody who can, should be…

— Andre Vltchek

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully…

— Helen Van Wyk

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

— David Hockney

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no…

— Stephen Stills

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

— Hans Hofmann

I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on…

— David Blaine

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

— Leslie Fiedler

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

— Miranda Lambert

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

— Denis Donoghue

There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I…

— China Mieville

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

— Kumi Naidoo

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an…

— James Vincent McMorrow

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

— Roger Ballen

“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

The only thing about rock n' roll in my house is a couple of paintings of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan -…

— John Waite

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

— Richard MacDonald

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making…

— Mary Cassatt

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

— Anonymous

As a songwriter or artist, there's only so many ways you can say, 'I love you' or 'I think you're beautiful.'

— Tyler Farr

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

— Ai Weiwei

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

— Nelly Furtado

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in…

— Washington Allston

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can…

— Dan Colen

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art…

— Paul Smith

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

— Jacques Barzun