Artist Quotes · Page 363

“Cath didn’t feel like a mistake to him. She felt like a beginning. A clean canvas, ready to be painted. A gorgeous…

— Ruthie Knox

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

— Berkeley Breathed

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so…

— Robert Carlyle

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

— Rebecca West

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

— Natalie Babbitt

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

— Pablo Picasso

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW,…

— Josef Albers

The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a…

— Willem de Kooning

The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and…

— Guillermo del Toro

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and…

— Mary Beth McKenzie

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved…

— Jasper Johns

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but…

— Mike Curran

I think it's important to remember that an artist could be at the center of healing our problems because, every day, that's…

— David Lang

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all…

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.

— Claes Oldenburg

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

— Shirin Neshat

If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.

— Kristen Wiig

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

— Nathan Oliveira

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware…

— Rollo May

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

— Saint Augustine

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

— Meryl Streep

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

— Thomas Kinkade

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

— Ernst Haas

“The art is nothing without the gift. But the gift is nothing without work.”

— Oscar Wilde

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a…

— Julian Schnabel

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

— Marcel Duchamp

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

— Terence McKenna

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

— Nell Blaine

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

— Anonymous

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

— Gish Jen

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

— Michael Heizer

“Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

— Pablo Picasso

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our…

— Gordon Quinn

Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

— Graeme Base

I wouldn't make music with you if I didn't know you. If you're a good artist, and if you know it as…

— Travis Scott

I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.

— Patricia Piccinini