Artist Quotes · Page 335

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

— Alan Moore

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

— Nathan Goldstein

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though…

— James Whistler

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to…

— Ezra Pound

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

— Barnett Newman

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

— Jackson Pollock

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Art is a beautiful world to get into. Once you are there, it is very difficult to get out of it. Like,…

— Dimple Kapadia

I really enjoy writing and producing for other artists. Some people save their best songs for their own albums. I'd rather give…

— Missy Elliot

I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just…

— Ian Astbury

Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts…

— Harold Rosenberg

The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or…

— Walter J. Phillips

This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance,…

— Marcel Proust

“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at…

— Zakk Wylde

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that…

— Ossie Davis

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

— Richard Armitage

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to…

— Willa Cather

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

— Claire Bloom

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

— Anthony Braxton

Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

— Wayne Coyne

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going…

— Michelangelo

One thing I can bring to this as second lady is making people aware of what art therapy is and how it…

— Karen Pence

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.

— Marcel Duchamp

Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

— Franz Grillparzer

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

— Bruno Munari

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

— Matthew Quick

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

— Kara DioGuardi

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

— Laz Alonso

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

— Jennifer Estep

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

— Pablo Picasso

“We all have our alloted portions of black and white paint; how we lay it on is a question of temperament.”

— Ewart Grogan

It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.

— Ian Harding

Just as sport can, art has the capacity to cross so many boundaries like education, race and religion.

— Susie Wolff

I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.

— Jamie Hewlett

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

— Simone Weil

“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”

— Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

“Everything is art,' Tim says, a far-off look suddenly clouding those hazel eyes. 'Death is art. Life is art. Pain is art.”

— Jen Violi