Artist Quotes · Page 319

I have never painted as well as I thought I should, so frustration came early.

— Thomas S. Buechner

It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.

— Blake Shelton

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

— Eden Robinson

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed…

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

— Madeleine L'Engle

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

— Eugene Delacroix

Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.

— Stephen Beal

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

— Banksy

“Artists have a habit of becoming what they practice on the canvas. Who knows when it began? When he discovered that the…

— Megan Rich

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want…

— Olly Murs

“The thing you have to remember about artists...is never to trust their immediate response. Whatever the news, their reaction will be self-protective.…

— Norman Lebrecht

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from…

— Eduard Hanslick

I think Pac is one of those artists that generations on generations know who this guy is, as an artist, as an…

— Annie Ilonzeh

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not,…

— David Shrigley

If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according…

— Eugene Delacroix

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything…

— William Bell

“But nobody listens to artists any more. Paint cannot stop progress, only color it.”

— Michael Walterich

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who…

— Kevin Costner

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life…

— Anonymous

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

— Sandra Bernhard

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and,…

— Marc Davis

“I argue that the first image-makers were acting rationally in the specific social circumstances ... they were not driven by ‘aesthetics’.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.

— Robert Bateman

As an artist, it's always good to have some sort of magic involved in what you're doing.

— Sisqo

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.

— Andre Malraux

When I like an artist, especially a female artist, I really try to support.

— Jain

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory,…

— Yann Martel

“Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it.”

— Daniel Habil

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.

— Bill Bryson

Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the…

— Jennifer Lopez

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

— Steven Pinker

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

— John Ruskin

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of…

— Claude Monet

Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)

— Tom Six

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

— Max Weber

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

— Ben Shahn

Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.

— Debbie Harry

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

— Isamu Noguchi

“You are not thinking of reading law, are you? he said. Oh God no! John Calley stood holding the paint can. I…

— Paulette Jiles

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

— Helen Vendler