Artist Quotes · Page 340

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

— Abe Ajay

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

— Amy Ray

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

— Frank Norris

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life…

— Brandon Boyd

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

— Brian Aldiss

I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a…

— Jerry Pinkney

If someone wants to think what I do is somewhat artistic, that's fine, but I'm not looking to be necessarily labeled an…

— Ken Wahl

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of…

— Gustave Courbet

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object.…

— Christine Leunens

There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or…

— James R Newman

When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary,…

— Lawren Harris

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Wait. Like an art museum, or are we talking a history museum? I could tolerate the dinosaur bones and war relics, but…

— Victoria Michaels

Many of our buildings have large format murals that are of varying subject matter, and we've found that those are the sort…

— Miguel McKelvey

“Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sam Shepard is - I didn't tell this to Sammy, but if I had to point to one artist that made me…

— Norbert Leo Butz

“The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about…

— Oscar Wilde

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

— Criss Jami

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

— Robert Genn

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

— Melissa Brown

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

— Simon de Pury

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!”

— William T. Vollmann

Collage is an important part of my everyday life. I always did it kind of secretly but then started my blog where…

— Laura Restrepo

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

— Josef Albers

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

— Hans Haacke

Every piece of art I've ever made was because I saw bad and could do better, or saw great and needed to…

— Anonymous

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.

— Bella Freud

All my artist buddies make fun of me for being such a sensitive human being.

— Thomas Rhett

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

— Peter Greenaway

When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.

— Kody Chamberlain

I was once a struggling artist, so I just want to help others, and provide my resources and connections and the people…

— apl.de.ap

I'm an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.

— Travis Scott

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

— Slim Moon

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

— Paula Vogel

“For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

— Rick Rubin

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

— Michelle Stuart