Artist Quotes · Page 352

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same…

— Frank Oz

As always, my influences are diverse and not what you might expect from a 'heavy metal' artist.

— Paul Gilbert

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

— Pablo Picasso

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I’ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never…

— Matt Bomer

“They say all art—whether books, music, or visual—is a reaction to other art.”

— Blake Crouch

I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.

— Oscar Isaac

It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to…

— Peter Ackroyd

Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear…

— Yayoi Kusama

I draw things on the paper very freely but believing there is meaning to them already. There is already meaning in the…

— Alex Abreu

Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom…

— Shirin Neshat

I once won a Grammy for an Australian version of 'Turn the Page' that another artist did; I can't remember his name.…

— Bob Seger

I am a creative artist. I have the ability to radiate. Lifting my arms above me, I soar above the earth. Lowering…

— Michael Chekhov

Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to…

— James Agee

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has…

— Margaret Mead

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have…

— Teena Marie

Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute.

— Robert Lepage

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or…

— George Bernard Shaw

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

— William Hazlitt

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

— Duane Michals

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms…

— Robertson Davies

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

— Daniel Dennett

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

— Ellsworth Kelly

If you're an artist and you have dreams don't stop fighting because dreams really do come true.

— Dahvie Vanity

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an…

— W. Earl Brown

Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial…

— Ma Yansong

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective…

— Ziggy Marley

“All great art is almost never received well initially; don't quit before the world opens its eyes.”

— Gregor Collins

To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.

— Wil Wheaton

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

— Takeshi Kitano

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

— Steven Soderbergh

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel…

— T. Allen Lawson

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

— Pablo Picasso

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I am on a mural in Belfast with 'Floating up the Lagan in a bubble' on it. You know you have made…

— Adrian Dunbar

I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper.

— Redman

I am not a big artist myself. I am, I guess, a somewhat successful songwriter now, but I think that my value…

— Tobias Forge

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

— Alexander Eliot

“How much distance should there be between art and artist? I’d say no more than a lifetime.”

— Jarod Kintz