Artist Quotes · Page 325

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

— Honore de Balzac

Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

— Claes Oldenburg

I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep…

— Paloma Picasso

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

— Sara Blecher

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life - as an artist and as a person -…

— Lil Durk

I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.

— Elizabeth Marvel

As an artist, I struggle with how much of myself to give to the people. How much I want my personal business…

— August Alsina

I guess with the generation we live in, we just want to be entertained at the end of the day. A lot…

— Tyga

That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to…

— Elizabeth Peyton

Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do…

— Seth Godin

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be yourself and do what you actually like doing as an artist. Don't try to think too much about where am I…

— Muneshine

I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art…

— Toni Morrison

If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill…

— Antoni Tapies

When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking…

— Warren MacKenzie

“Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely .”

— Alexander Pope

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

— Maira Kalman

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

— Francis Alys

The guest artists pass on not only their experiences but also the pitfalls.

— Ann Reinking

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

— Oscar Wilde

I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible.

— Catherine Camus

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see…

— Edward Ruscha

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped…

— Claes Oldenburg

The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso.

— Michael Portillo

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of…

— Gus Van Sant

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as…

— Marshall McLuhan

The way it works is the manager's sort of, you know, is like the hub of an artist's career.

— Troy Carter

Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

— Walter Darby Bannard

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

— Bridget Riley

I want to touch on every form of art and be the best at it and be the biggest at it.

— Benny Cassette

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit…

— D. H. Lawrence

Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.

— David Shields

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

— Jim Broadbent

I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

— Jack Levine

Art has helped shape me in a way that is maybe unique, but I've also got to go and put my own…

— Justin Tucker

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

— Giorgio Morandi

“There are two things in this world that I want to do endlessly: make art and make love. And with you, they…

— Jessica Yeh

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out…

— Horace Walpole