Artist Quotes · Page 338

“I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.”

— Don DeLillo

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

— Leon Battista Alberti

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

— Lukas Foss

“Time is a sculptor's knife, attacking the soft clay to reveal the hard edges beneath.”

— James Pratt

I actually love physics, but art is where I thought I could make a difference for my country.

— Dasha Zhukova

“I almost can't believe you won first place, because the painting deserves it so much, and people who deserve to win hardly…

— Natalie Standiford

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version…

— Martin Parr

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

— Bruce Lee

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which…

— Vaclav Havel

Obviously I've got to work hard to have my own label, but it all benefits me in a different kind of way.…

— Lady Sovereign

That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have…

— Jane Campion

I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist…

— Banks

I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me.…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser…

— K'naan

There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's…

— Billy Corgan

“My dear fellow why have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are. You do anything in the world to gain…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

— Zadie Smith

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what…

— G-Eazy

Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.

— Sydney Banks

Too many people are worried about having results NOW...the Mona Lisa was not created in a day. Perfection takes time.

— Anonymous

I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.

— Kevin Dillon

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a…

— Norman Mailer

I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think…

— Janelle Monae

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

— Raymond Pettibon

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

— Howard Pyle

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso”

— Edward B. Burger

Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when…

— Dan Fogelberg

Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.

— Barbara Mason

I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second.

— Jenny Lewis

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

— Tony Bouza

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

— Anonymous

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

— Bonnie Raitt

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your…

— Eric Drooker

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

— Julia Cameron

“Living well is both a discipline and an art. Concentrate on staying close to Me, the divine Artist.”

— Sarah Young

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

— Franz Grillparzer

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back,…

— Mandy Patinkin

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a…

— Baz Luhrmann