Artist Quotes · Page 329

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. A”

— Pablo Picasso

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

— Rachel Kushner

All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.

— John Leguizamo

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

— Eli Broad

It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to…

— Trevor Paglen

I've probably represented almost every major artist in the world, either directly or peripherally, at one time or another.

— Jerry Heller

I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.

— Kehinde Wiley

The Muhammad Ali Act to MMA is necessary to balance the scales between promoter and mixed martial artist and to restore integrity…

— Jon Fitch

There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you…

— Pharoahe Monch

“I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know…

— Michael Jackson

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living,…

— Rebecca West

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted…

— Caravaggio

My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was…

— William Wegman

I am an artist, and I will always be working. But a film should match my personality and should be primarily based…

— Hema Malini

[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone -…

— Russell Simmons

“I’d paint with a beard if I could grow out of my abstract expressionist phase.”

— Jarod Kintz

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

— Hilton Als

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

— Joe Bradley

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

— Chaim Potok

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

“Any artist who has ever created something worthwhile has done so by staying true to himself. You can't do it any other…

— Jerrod Edson

We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.

— Prince

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

— Henry Moore

It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette.

— Ugo Mochi

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

— Kazimir Malevich

I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.

— Henry Moore

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

— William Blake

what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?

— Cassandra Clare

I just wanna be able to be honest with the art and do it because it's flowing and it's real to me.

— Lacey Sturm

I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and…

— Dennis Hopper

“I identified historical hierarchical division of the arts into fine arts and craft as a major force in the marginalisation of women's…

— Rozsika Parker

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

— George Jean Nathan

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

— Caspar David Friedrich

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that…

— Franz Grillparzer

It's not easy to go from reality TV to being taken seriously as an artist, so I don't think I'll be doing…

— Chanel West Coast

“Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully…

— Jan Zwicky

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with…

— Abraham Maslow