Artist Quotes · Page 401

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

— Brad Holland

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

— Criss Jami

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

— Chris Martin

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

— Jim Rowe

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

— Olivia Newton-John

In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and…

— Ben Lerner

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some…

— Anonymous

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting…

— Chris Ofili

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort…

— Murasaki Shikibu

Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)...…

— Helmut Gernsheim

I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of…

— Sam Richardson

Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art…

— Joseph Beuys

My makeup artist likes to define my brows with Maybelline Brow Drama. We brush up on the part closest to my nose…

— Gigi Hadid

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

— Brian Chesky

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

— Ben Nicholson

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

— Carl Andre

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

— Lauryn Hill

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

— Arne Glimcher

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist…

— Jared Leto

I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

— Charli XCX

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent…

— Vivienne Westwood

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

— Cyril Connolly

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

— Jeff Koons

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

— Donald Judd

If a character artiste accepts too many small roles his career dies a slow death.

— Mukesh Rishi

I think I am the type of artist that, time and time again, either people love or don't know about.

— Raheem DeVaughn

Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.

— Romeo Santos

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

— Brandon Boyd

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

— Truman Capote

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

— John Feldmann

I always loved music, but I didn't know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference.

— India Arie

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

— Paul Laseau

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you…

— Nick Bantock

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

— Brett Weston

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…

— Roger Scruton

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

— Steven Pressfield