Artist Quotes · Page 409

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

— Dave Barry

Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.

— Gerhard Richter

Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

— Henry Fuseli

In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.

— Wassily Kandinsky

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people…

— Jacques Barzun

Its funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than with the artwork itself.

— Chuck Palahniuk

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

— Kay WalkingStick

Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions.

— Shepard Fairey

“When it comes to forming opinions on works of art, people look to others. Most people end up liking paintings, songs and…

— Abhaidev

Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a…

— Ravi Zacharias

A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more…

— Steven Knight

I'm amazed by how angry people get about new art, particularly new sculptures in their town. The people who hate new sculpture…

— Sean Lock

“I’m not sure about all the particulars that led to this moment. Do I believe life is a series of dots to…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes…

— L.A. Reid

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want…

— Ice T

I am an alien. I start a lot of relationships with artists because of what I'm capable of doing with the machine…

— AraabMuzik

“Great art, I've always felt, is like a pearl; thousands of layers of creativity and sensibility built up around an inner core…

— K.J. Parker

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

— Leonardo da Vinci

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

— Wyclef Jean

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

— Pablo Picasso

Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.

— Deena Metzger

What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going…

— Johnny Depp

“(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.”

— Galileo Galilei

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

— Paul Tillich

“that they were often as thrilled by trash as by an acknowledged masterpiece (32)”

— Émile Zola

Let me tell you, you can paint pictures and get people indicted for just about anything.

— Al D'Amato

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

— Robert Mankoff

“Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.”

— Joan Acocella

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in…

— Mark Twain

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

— Robert Henri

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

— Anonymous

Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"

— Rob Long

Turns out it's bloody hard to make a sculpture that looks like a human head, so I've not bothered. Realism is for…

— Joe Lycett

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

— Ivan Albright

Every team member who brings intelligence, experience and passion to their creations should be called an artist or designer.

— Tony Fadell

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object.

— D. H. Lawrence

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

— Malcolm D. Lee

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

— Joaquin Sorolla

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

— John Romero