Artist Quotes · Page 405

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Every piece of art I've ever made was because I saw bad and could do better, or saw great and needed to…

— Anonymous

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.

— Bella Freud

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

— Josef Albers

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

— Hans Haacke

When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.

— Kody Chamberlain

I was once a struggling artist, so I just want to help others, and provide my resources and connections and the people…

— apl.de.ap

All my artist buddies make fun of me for being such a sensitive human being.

— Thomas Rhett

Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won't reach that by considerations of my…

— Bram van Velde

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and…

— Jerry Saltz

The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to…

— Frank Stella

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night,…

— Pablo Picasso

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything…

— Peter Lindbergh

My bigger game plan was always to be the top artist in the heart of people and that probably made me artist…

— Jubin Nautiyal

I think there can be a misrepresentation of who I am a lot of times because I might be more quiet than…

— Kip Moore

For us, as artists, our goal isn't to forever try to play at the biggest venue ever. Our goal is to make…

— Yukimi Nagano

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

— Peter Greenaway

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

— Tanya Saracho

I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

— Flume

If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.

— Marko Djurdjevic

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

— Peggy Guggenheim

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

— Brian Aldiss

I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a…

— Jerry Pinkney

Thy head is a portrait thy just have to paint it until thy run out of paper

— Jocelyn Najera

If someone wants to think what I do is somewhat artistic, that's fine, but I'm not looking to be necessarily labeled an…

— Ken Wahl

“Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

— Abe Ajay

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

— Amy Ray

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life…

— Brandon Boyd

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

— Frank Norris

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

— William Hogarth

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

— Robert Genn

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its…

— Barry McGee

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

— Anonymous

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he…

— David Lynch

If there's anything I can promise is that I'm gonna paint till the last breath.

— Heart Evangelista

'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.

— Simon Rattle

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

— Toni Morrison

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

— Carl Maria von Weber

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

— Jeff Koons