Artist Quotes · Page 368

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

— Mike Thompson

I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still.

— Kevyn Aucoin

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

— George Sand

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.

— Timothy Morton

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be…

— Miley Cyrus

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

I think that the music that I listened to turned me into the artist that I am.

— Scarface

That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

— Philip K. Dick

I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the…

— Eva Hesse

It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“There's a hurried intensity in the strokes--you can see where he scratched into the wet paint with the end of the brush.…

— Nicole Krauss

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think…

— Chuck Close

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This…

— Ray Charles

I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of…

— Betty Churcher

I went to an art high school in Washington D.C., and I majored in visual art. When I started there, I was…

— Njena Reddd Foxxx

I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during…

— Peter Capaldi

“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

At my academy, I have a full 20x20 canvas but I don't have any ropes around it and do that for a…

— Tony Ferguson

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

— Francis Bacon

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

— Adolf Loos

I want to grow as an artist, and I'm taking a step out. I want my music to mature.

— Justin Bieber

I think one of the big mistakes people make is to have fame as one of their main goals. That is the…

— Hope Sandoval

That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even…

— SonReal

The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does…

— Robin G. Collingwood

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

— Arthur C. Clarke

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

— George Grosz

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

— Amanda Palmer

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough…

— Tom Scholz

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it…

— Chaim Potok

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

— Jackson Pollock

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

— Tori Amos

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

— Paul Gauguin

People ask me all the time, ALL the time, they say the same exact thing. They say, 'Bo, you're an artist... how…

— Bo Burnham

You’re not supposed to animate drawings. You’re supposed to animate feelings.

— Ollie Johnston

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not…

— David Hockney

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

— Barnett Newman

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she…

— Fay Wray

I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.

— Samuel Barnett

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with…

— Jane Seymour