Artist Quotes · Page 370

It's really the artist in me that loves the idea of an image and an image that provokes an emotion.

— Jaime King

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try…

— Pablo Picasso

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

— Derek Walcott

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden…

— Yayoi Kusama

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

— John French Sloan

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

— Oscar Wilde

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

— Robert Genn

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care…

— Vincent Van Gogh

What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To…

— Martin Filler

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the…

— Dorianne Laux

What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

“A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it:…

— Steve Turner

I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love,…

— Sarah Kay

I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic…

— James Marsters

I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are,…

— Pittacus Lore

Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which…

— Zara Larsson

If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.

— Robert Henri

“The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it…

— Arnold Bennett

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

— Wayne Thiebaud

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

— Alex Grey

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

— John Cage

“Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The…

— Dennis Etchison

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.

— Laurieann Gibson

Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

— Nile Rodgers

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

— Fernando Botero

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

— Milton Resnick

I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.

— Michael Horse

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

— Salvador Dali

All artists, no matter who they are, have always come into contact with criticism. No one's gonna like what you do 100…

— Erika Jayne

The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I…

— John Lurie

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very…

— Julia Cameron

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

— Antony Gormley

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud

“To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

— Anonymous

“Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light.”

— Christoph Heinrich

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

— Edward Weston

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

— Bob Proctor

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'

— Dolly Parton

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.

— LeRoy Neiman