Artist Quotes · Page 387

Like me, most of my fellow artists struggle within the confines of what is 'politically correct.'

— Bez

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

— Jerry Saltz

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

— Edward Hopper

The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.

— Eric Maisel

If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.

— Tavi Gevinson

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

— Doseone

I work with an amazing team - I have a stylist and a hairdresser and make-up artist who are always wondering what…

— Netta Barzilai

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.

— Jack White

It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible…

— Dirk Benedict

I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture…

— Edwidge Danticat

The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing…

— Gerhard Richter

I'm just happy that in the whole framework of art imitates life, or maybe life should be imitating art, there is this…

— Jimmy Smits

Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre…

— Robert Aris Willmott

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to…

— Chuck D

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer…

— Anonymous

“The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any…

— Arthur Phillips

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

— Anthony Caro

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

— Vivienne Westwood

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

— Billy Childish

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

'Rent' resonates with people across generations because it's really great art.

— Jordan Fisher

Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.

— Ben Eine

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

— Pierre Bonnard

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

— Olivier Megaton

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

— Stephen Gardiner

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

— Henry David Thoreau

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to…

— Michael Haneke

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.

— Henrik Vibskov

I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for…

— Charles Clarke

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

— Robert Genn

I live life. I experience things. I go through ups and downs, and so I express them creatively and artistically.

— Sky Blu

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

— Miranda July

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

— Emile Zola

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have…

— James Pearse Connelly

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

— Guy Berryman

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

— Sol LeWitt

“I draw a girl without a face, drawing somebody else’s face onto her own reflection.”

— Akemi Dawn Bowman

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

— Liza Campbell

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

— Brian Selznick