Artist Quotes · Page 322

“An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men”

— Vincent Van Gogh

If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick…

— Marianne Elliott

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

— Jack Larson

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

— Annie Lennox

“The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.”

— Steven Pressfield

Choose to give your creative art priority over other things. You can do it.

— Nita Leland

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

— Yoko Ono

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can…

— Jill Scott

Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to…

— Thornton Willis

A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is…

— Jean Dubuffet

I'm a really new artist here. I would say that my style is an artist who can dance and sing. That's why…

— BoA

“In those paintings, angels clustered around the living and the dead who sit peaceably on thrones, making signs with their hands. Just…

— M.T. Anderson

Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When I was really young, I gravitated towards the visual arts first. I feel that's what comes most naturally to me. I've…

— John Dyer Baizley

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

— Uta Hagen

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

— Mark Rothko

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire…

— Gerhard Richter

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

— Gustave Flaubert

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

— Raoul Peck

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for…

— Charlton Heston

My being in America and being adopted from the Philippines have given me motivation and drive as an artist.

— apl.de.ap

It is when you adapt that you truly grow. When you grow, you don't let your art become the breeding ground for…

— Shankar Mahadevan

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

— Jean Tinguely

“-last words about painting, age 78... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it.”

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes…

— Ken Burns

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the…

— Patrick Stump

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

— Edward de Bono

Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.

— Richard Scarry

Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?

— Oliver $

“You can 3d print furniture, but you cannot 3d print art - and alas, only a true artist can know what this…

— Abhijit Naskar

I am delighted to be an artist and follow in my mother's footsteps, even though I know I am not allowed to…

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

— Ralph Allen

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art…

— Heath Ledger

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

— Horace Pippin

The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with…

— Vivienne Westwood

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

— Martin Mull

“Art has no right answer. The best we can hope for is an interesting answer.”

— Seth Godin

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting…

— Edgar Degas