Artist Quotes · Page 337

I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

— Allan Kaprow

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

— C.D. Wright

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was…

— Ernest Hemingway

I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good…

— Alia Shawkat

Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

— Joseph Brodsky

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't,…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

— Carrie Coon

There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Much later on, I read a statement of Bruce Nauman's: “Art is a matter of life and death.” It sounds melodramatic, but…

— Marina Abramović

Minnesotans who bought scenic art usually avoided winter scenes. Hannah didn't find that surprising. Minnesota winters were long. Why would they want…

— Joanne Fluke

“The disadvantages and dangers of the author’s calling are offset by an advantage so great as to make all its difficulties, disappointments,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair…

— Eric Maisel

I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends…

— Aaron Brookner

Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some…

— Bill Ayers

What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that…

— John Berger

Through art, through people working together and building relationships and trust, people can overcome the problems of politics.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

I can't tell you how scary it can be for an artist to be in a space where they don't know where…

— Rohit Saraf

All children are artists,the problem is how to remain and artist as they grow up

— Pablo Picasso

I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.

— M. Night Shyamalan

I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to…

— Cheyenne Kimball

“You put your soul into those paintings, and nothing in this world is more beautiful to me than that soul of yours.”

— R.K. Lilley

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

— Shinichi Suzuki

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

— Sara Genn

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

— Mencius

The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you.

— Tove Lo

I've watched too many artists in my life forget how good the things they used to do were.

— James Murphy

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

— Bruce Lee

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

— Henry Moore

“To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself.”

— Anonymous

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the…

— Francis Bacon

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all…

— Paul Young

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

— Irvine Welsh

As I've grown as an artist, I've gotten more and more in touch with my center, and that center is voice and…

— Lindsey Buckingham

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times,…

— Dawn Richard

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people…

— Laura Owens

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

— Hans Hofmann

“...what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?...”

— John Geddes

I'm a rapper and an artist, but I'm a human. That's what people forget. That's why I try to make them remember.

— Rod Wave

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

— Raymond Carver