Artist Quotes · Page 328

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the…

— Robert Lyn Nelson

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

— Todd Rundgren

Music and art well and truly saved my life really - the light switched on when I discovered art.

— Goldie

For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.

— Brian Froud

I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for…

— Kehinde Wiley

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to…

— Winston Churchill

There are so many rappers now that it's cluttering our culture. 90% of the time at a show there are more artists…

— Statik Selektah

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I always want to encourage young artists. As the budgets get smaller, that might provide an opening for younger artists and more…

— Peter Marino

“we’re made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared…

— Robert Browning

But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into…

— E. M. Forster

Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of…

— J. E. H. MacDonald

I think I've always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and…

— Eve Ensler

Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad…

— John Newman

“People have to create some kind of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.”

— Leila Sales

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all…

— Jessica Rothe

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

“Life is art, though our styles and colors vary we all have a master piece.”

— Zachary Koukol

In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.

— John Dyer Baizley

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is…

— George Duke

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

— Jim Harrison

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

— Amy Poehler

Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

— Pat Steir

“If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore…

— Amit Kalantri

As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of…

— Eric Heisserer

“I’ve never known of a serious artist who was happy. Except maybe Rubens.”

— Chaim Potok

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

— Nick Hornby

James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg are the ideal guys to adapt 'The Disaster Artist.'

— Greg Sestero

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of…

— John Constable

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could…

— N. Scott Momaday

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

— Charlton Heston

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

— James Whistler

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and…

— Marina Abramovic

Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.

— Larry Gagosian

People don't paint for the hell of it. It's a deeply seated thing - a preoccupation - the whole of one's life.

— Roger de Grey

You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

— Yelawolf

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

— Dennis Hopper

What if everything in a museum is crap? It's entirely possible; it's not the end of the world.

— David Salle