Artist Quotes · Page 392

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

— Marcel Duchamp

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

— Ondi Timoner

Artists get to step outside their comfort zone a 'lil bit and we get some great songs!!

— Matt Squire

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

— Woody Allen

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if…

— Arthur Erickson

You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.

— Richard Armitage

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

— Agnes Repplier

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up…

— Semir Zeki

History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual…

— Camille Paglia

I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do…

— Romero Britto

At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make…

— Daniel Clowes

In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is…

— Robert Motherwell

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address…

— Alain de Botton

It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you…

— Emily Robison

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

— Robert Motherwell

If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.

— Matisyahu

My uncle is a martial artist, and in the early '80s, he made a kung fu flick with director Charlie Ahearn.

— Michael Che

“...et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)”

— Ovid

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or…

— Michael Buble

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of…

— Juliana Hatfield

The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know…

— Alison Lurie

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

— George Bernard Shaw

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

— David Hockney

“A monochrome Jackson Pollock," Jane says, and then tells Tiny, "We gotta bolt. This band is like a root canal sans painkiller".”

— John Green

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

— Pablo Picasso

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

— John F. Kennedy

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

— William Morris

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

— Josef Albers

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.

— George Ezra

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to…

— Gustave Courbet

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

— Patti Smith

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

— Joseph Campbell

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see…

— Tommy Lee

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he…

— Romare Bearden

On the 'Blacks & Browns' record, it's me and Sad Boy. He's a Hispanic artist, and we're talking about what we got…

— YG

“Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.”

— Andrew Levy