Artist Quotes · Page 406

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

— J. B. Smoove

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

— Simone de Beauvoir

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

— Tobin Bell

“We are all artists; painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.

— Ralph Allen

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

— Sidney Lumet

I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.

— Thomas Hirschhorn

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson,…

— Lynne Tillman

“For the good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. Its…

— Oscar Wilde

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict…

— Diego Rivera

Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get…

— Jerry Pate

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he…

— Leonardo da Vinci

People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's…

— Mandy Patinkin

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we…

— Jerry Saltz

As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair…

— Joaquin Sorolla

“It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's…

— LL Cool J

To me, being real is being yourself. You know, that's whether you're a pop artist or whatever.

— Tee Grizzley

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

— Pablo Picasso

I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.

— Parker Posey

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

— Robert Genn

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

— Kehinde Wiley

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

— Pablo Picasso

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

— Lon Milo DuQuette

I get to make art at my own pace. I get to think big and move slow. There's nothing better than that.

— RaMell Ross

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed…

— Larry Wall

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

— Yareli Arizmendi

I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner…

— Eva Hesse

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

— Hakim Bey

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

— Luc Tuymans

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

— Marion Dane Bauer

I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

— Robert Genn

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

— James Baldwin

“whatever it may consist of, however its specific colors may be painted,”

— Cornelius Wencel

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

— Frank Stella

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

— Lynn Shelton

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of…

— Cyril Connolly

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.

— Tom Robbins

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

— Jasper Johns

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

— Chris Van Allsburg