Artist Quotes · Page 342

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

— Gertrude Stein

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from…

— Common

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

— John Tenniel

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

— William Hogarth

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

— Robert Genn

If there's anything I can promise is that I'm gonna paint till the last breath.

— Heart Evangelista

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he…

— David Lynch

'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.

— Simon Rattle

I've always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it.…

— Buzz Osborne

“But get this: you're free. Freedom is the greatest gift to the artist. Don't waste it. Go to Buenos Aires. Eat some…

— Kapka Kassabova

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak…

— Mike Svob

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural…

— Edgard Varese

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were…

— Norman Rockwell

A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive,…

— Budd Hopkins

I loved going on the road... I think that's something everybody ought to experience one day - not necessarily as an artist,…

— Thomas Rhett

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which…

— Winston Churchill

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its…

— Barry McGee

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

— Anonymous

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

— Carl Maria von Weber

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

— Jeff Koons

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

— Toni Morrison

The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.

— Nick Rhodes

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have…

— Charley Pride

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

— Helena Rubinstein

The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social…

— Thomas Jefferson

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

— Asger Jorn

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

— Ralph Richardson

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

— W. Somerset Maugham

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

— Aristotle

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

— Fernando Perez

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

— M.I.A

“A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...”

— Anonymous

I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

— Nick Hornby

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

— Chris Martin

All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.

— John Maeda

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead…

— Richard Pousette-Dart

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from…

— Kanye West

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

— Francis Ford Coppola

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

— Andrey Zvyagintsev