Artist Quotes · Page 360

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

— Anonymous

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

— Nelson Shanks

I would like to think that an artist's mental health is taken into consideration more now.

— Kate Nash

“We intuitively reject art when the cost to make it is less than the cost to buy it.”

— Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

— Anselm Kiefer

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

— Huston Smith

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

— Mariel Hemingway

I always wanted to be an artist of some sort and I was really shy growing up, so performing didn't really seem…

— Alison Sudol

“Ninety-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as good as…

— William Faulkner

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a…

— Gil Kane

“As an artist, if your work doesn't inflame at least part of the audience, then you might as well call it quits…

— Alys Arden

“One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than…

— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but…

— Sigfried Giedion

Unfortunately, you don't get artist development anymore. Record companies have become a huge corporate thing. It used to be you'd meet someone…

— David Vanian

I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see…

— Jerry Saltz

“To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough…

— Jami Attenberg

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

— Duane Ludwig

“The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb' (Andre Breton qtd. p. 55)”

— Christina Burrus

In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

— Friedrich Holderlin

I'm definitely a good artist. --- I can create colors in my life to make it beautiful. Be yours and nothing would…

— Jehan Fostanes Nayga

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to one's work.

— Jillian Mayer

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

— Terri Windling

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

— Gwen John

I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

— Giles Deacon

That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.

— Ella Leya

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

— James Lee Burke

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

— Henry Fuseli

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on…

— Steve Martin

I think that sometimes fans or supporters say "I love this artist" but they may not realize that he loves them back.

— Prince Royce

My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence…

— Marcel Dzama

If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

— Vincent Van Gogh

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that…

— Todd Hido

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as…

— Howie Dorough

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

— Maren Morris

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

— Meher Baba

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come

— Paula Cole

As a martial artist, I discovered that there's always so much more to learn.

— Frank Shamrock

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

— Arthur Miller

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

— Aldous Huxley