Artist Quotes · Page 375

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other…

— Jackson Pollock

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

— Frank Ocean

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make…

— Diane Ackerman

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot…

— Jason Alexander

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

— Billy Corgan

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

— Edgar Degas

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

— Joseph Beuys

I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out…

— Norbert Bisky

“Nothing rose to plug the gap, to address what some called “ultimate concerns,” unless you count the arts, the arts that lacked…

— Annie Dillard

I think for the open-minded, I'm a lot like Luciano Pavarotti... But I don't know the technique. I'm learning. I think Pavarotti…

— Amaury Vassili

The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each…

— Agnes Gund

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary…

— Jerry Saltz

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point.…

— Jason Aldean

When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of…

— Joaquin Sorolla

“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

— Robert Crumb

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

— Thomas Mars

Art is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it!

— Rick Sutter

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must…

— Paola Antonelli

“She wanted children and considered having them a "privilege," but art also "was a privilege given to me and I had to…

— Jan Greenberg

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does…

— Leo Howard

“It was a work of art. It was better than that. It was a work of craft.”

— Terry Pratchett

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

— Salvador Dali

I'm not like most artists or most CEOs - I'm a CEO first, then an artist.

— Young Dolph

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

— Pierre Alechinsky

To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic…

— Seth Godin

I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this…

— Nicole Appleton

I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process.

— Kehinde Wiley

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

— Lawrence Durrell

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

— Pierre Soulages

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

— Fede Alvarez

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

— Anonymous

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

— Fernando Botero

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

— Kurt Vonnegut

We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.

— Kim Young-ha