Artist Quotes · Page 331

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

— Arthur Erickson

You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing…

— Brad Hall

“as had the graffiti spray-painted in red on one of the corridor walls: THE CAKE IS A LIE.”

— Ernest Cline

The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

— Ed Parker

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

— Joseph Jarman

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

— David Alfaro Siqueiros

That the best piece of art a person is capable of making is the one that only they could create.

— Stephen Karam

“was delivered early in 1508, for which the artists were paid 100 lire – half of what they had been promised. By”

— Anna Abraham

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music,…

— Chico Hamilton

I love the idea of finding new talent, however you do it, and the television mechanism - seeing artists grow and rise…

— Matt Serletic

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good singers. They wouldn't be where they…

— The Weeknd

“I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection…

— T.S. Eliot

When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the…

— Peter Max

Everybody is in your business, gossiping and being mean spirited. It's different. Sometimes I'm like, "Do I want to do this?," because…

— Tinsel Korey

The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist…

— Laura Owens

Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.

— Don Farrell

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

— Osbert Sitwell

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

— Oscar Wilde

“Yes, we have abolished the distance that artistic contemplation necessarily requires. So what is left? Love plus anatomy are left.”

— Michel Tournier

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

— Alice Neel

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new…

— Joe Jonas

Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.

— John Edgar Park

“The late sculptor Ken Price put it best: “Nothing I can say is going to improve how it looks.”

— David Salle

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

— Shepard Fairey

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words…

— James Schuyler

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.

— Lawrence Watt-Evans

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

— Thomas Hoving

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

— Dodie Smith

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

— Peter O'Toole

“The Cause of Nature disaster is measured through the parallel artistic handprints of a Genius”

— Ben Jr Grey, Emmanuel weber

Everybody doubts themselves. Every writer doubts themselves, every artist doubts himself, and every football player does.

— Edwin van der Sar

I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite…

— Stephen Beal

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

— Kathe Kollwitz

There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big…

— Sam Tsui

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

— Leonard Baskin

“Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might…

— Sarah Cross

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

— George Washington

“It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one.”

— Marcel Proust

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

— Glenn Gould