Artist Quotes · Page 384

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

— Julia Cameron

As a freshman Member of Congress, I am amazed by the enormous talent of artwork that is on display in our Nation's…

— George Santos

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

— Melanie Fiona

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

— David Hockney

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

— Timbaland

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

— Allen Ginsberg

“Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.”

— Anonymous

For you Cody(: (p.s. I wanted to show you my friend's artwork on my pencil case bahah!)

— Heatherr

“The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in…

— Raymond Queneau

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I notice a lot of younger artists have difficulty telling stories. They might have short stories where they express themselves well, but…

— Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

I've never heard of any one single artist being the subject in an ongoing series of radio programs for decades. Bearing this…

— Frank Sinatra, Jr

I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny.…

— Piet Mondrian

Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras,…

— Dennis Stock

I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not…

— Jakob Dylan

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty…

— Jonathan Santlofer

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

— Prince Charles

The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

— Rudolf Arnheim

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

— Kristine Kathryn Rusch

I have respect for the sport so I will contribute to the sport by encouraging artists .

— Ab-Soul

You can't be an artist while you're producing, because you'll be over-critiquing the producer part.

— Valee

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Love is The Highest Art Form, The Most Refined Artistic Expression. Love Charms Your Heart and Creates a Masterpiece.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger

“I wish I could paint like Raphael," Lucio said. "I'd paint you! You should smile more often - it's like dawn breaking…

— Kate Forsyth

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

— Elizabeth Neel

I am an artist who is ready to grab interesting roles that comes my way.

— Vijay Sethupathi

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money…

— Lady Gaga

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

— Frances Stark

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre…

— Edith Evans

I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.

— Bryan Greenberg

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

— Peter Porter

I've had so many conversations with new artists trying to figure out their careers.

— Scott Borchetta

So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it.

— David Douglas Duncan

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as…

— Sylvester Stallone

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

— Robert Breault

Every human being sees something different in a painting, so I want every single person to have their own thoughts about our…

— Shavo Odadjian

If people looked at me like I was a little different, I would maybe sit next to them, and I would draw.

— Kehinde Wiley

The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion,

— George Inness

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

— Billy Corgan