Artist Quotes · Page 327

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

— Nigel Cooke

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this…

— Swami Vivekananda

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries…

— Hans Hofmann

The artist I would love to be is inspiring and strong: show that I can be vulnerable but still independent.

— Grace VanderWaal

“Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the…

— Eric Samuel Timm

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

— Morgan Fairchild

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut…

— Elizabeth Aston

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.

— Walter J. Phillips

I had my first exhibition in September, 2012. This was when I first introduced the public to my style of the incorporation…

— St. Lucia

[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and…

— Rex Smith

Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings,…

— Anthony Caro

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void.…

— Patti Smith

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream -- of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete -- lives the…

— Glenn Kurtz

When I was a kid, my mom once told me that God was an artist and how on occasion He’d throw a…

— Kristina McMorris

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,…

— E. O. Wilson

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even…

— Taryn Manning

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

— Ai Weiwei

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

— Liam Payne

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

— Yoko Ono

“There is never a perfect time to make art. It's snatched hours between duties, or after the family goes to bed. Get…

— Alex de Campi

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose…

— Jarvis Cocker

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

— E. F. Schumacher

Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he…

— Pharrell Williams

I went to school for economics, and especially in Asian culture it's not really a viable job for my family to be…

— Jimmy O. Yang

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

— Grimes

It is through¦ Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

— Oscar Wilde

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb!

— MC Lars

I was always bad with money, and I think most artistes are like that. They don't use both sides of the brain.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of…

— Mark Haddon

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

— Pablo Picasso

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

— Thomas Gainsborough

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

— Igor Stravinsky

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

I am a career artist. A lot of people come by and they fly by night, but I'm gonna prove that I…

— Chamillionaire

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

— Bob Ross

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

— Edvard Munch

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

— Etta James