Artist Quotes · Page 380

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in…

— John Heartfield

I paint on and off, not very regularly. But since I was in school, I had an inclination for it.

— Bhumika Chawla

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

— Edmund Wilson

“Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.”

— Liz Rideal

Just because I'm a recording artist doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Because I had to grow.

— Lizz Wright

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

— Jean Rostand

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

— Damien Hirst

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in…

— Jacob Epstein

I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more…

— Nicki Minaj

Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is…

— Oliviero Toscani

“Your impression of me is different than my impression of me. But that’s OK, because your impression is impressionistic, like a Monet…

— Jarod Kintz

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example…

— Anonymous

“Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so—Ginevra de’ Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example—were never delivered to…

— Walter Isaacson

I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them…

— Carl Andre

Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces…

— Antony Gormley

I'm a firm believer in that there are MCs and there are artists. I love' em both.

— Kurupt

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem…

— Kelly Clarkson

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

— Thomas Eakins

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small…

— Laurie Anderson

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

— Austin O'Malley

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way…

— Jackson Pollock

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

— Sigourney Weaver

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

— Charles Rosin

'The Disaster Artist' book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there's something so rewarding about creating something from…

— Greg Sestero

“The sculptor is master of time; he can change his subjects forward or back.”

— Irving Stone

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it…

— Bridget Riley

Artists from all over the world have had a lot of positive influence on me. Their works always inspire me.

— Jackson Wang

If you succeed at all, you find yourself suddenly working with artists whose work you don't just admire but you deeply love.

— Gail Simone

You have to come to terms with yourself as an artist and know what you do best.

— Keith Whitley

There is something spiritual about art that connects us with ourselves and with others; it's really about coming together and creating bridges.

— Yasmine Hamdan

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

Nature alone is illimitably rich, and nature alone forms the great artist.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a…

— Serj Tankian

The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

— Gary Hume

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in…

— Edward Bond

I have always believed that an artiste needs to respond to a story first. One has to feel it in order to…

— Dia Mirza

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

— Esperanza Spalding

Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like…

— Immortal Technique