Artist Quotes · Page 412

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make…

— Peter Capaldi

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks…

— Andre Malraux

Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.

— Paige Bradley

That, to me, is the real crossover: a mainstream artist singing in Spanish.

— Ozuna

“Merely corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and——”

— W.S. Gilbert

First you draw what you see. Next, you draw what you know, and only then will you know what it is that…

— Robert Beverly Hale

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

— Damien Hirst

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to…

— Agnes de Mille

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed…

— Philip K. Dick

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be,…

— Adrian Tomine

I'm really loving Billie Eilish's 'idontwannabeyouanymore.' Her dreamy vocals offer such a lovely moment of escape, and there's a sophistication to the…

— Tan France

Do you think you can love too much? Or experience too much beauty, at the cost of too much pain? Do you…

— Paul Dalio

It used to be that labels would spend two or three or four albums developing a new artist before they threw in…

— Lari White

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are…

— Susan Rothenberg

INVISIBLE BOY And here we see the invisible boy In his lovely invisible house, Feeding a piece of invisible cheese To a…

— Shel Silverstein

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

— Robert Breault

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.

— Richard Diebenkorn

“Thunder Road' knows who I am and what I feel, and that, in the end, is one of the consolations of art.”

— Nick Hornby

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

— Joseph Raffael

I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.

— Randy Houser

The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I…

— Guinevere Van Seenus

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit…

— Franz Marc

The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily…

— Travis Knight

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as…

— Aretha Franklin

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

— Warren MacKenzie

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

— Ansel Adams

Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box.

— Paul Morrissey

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by…

— Peter Coyote

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

— Shaun McNiff

A life is a life and should never be trivialised for the sake of art or what have you.

— Heart Evangelista

The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.

— Anna Halprin

“Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun…

— Lenny Kravitz

I think that as you evolve as a person and an artist, your creative process evolves and changes, too.

— Lights

I don't want artists to find themselves in a situation where there are only two buyers. That just doesn't seem like a…

— John Landgraf

In some ways we describe 'Boxtrolls' as 'Oliver Twist' if Terry Gilliam had made it. I think he's an extraordinary artist, and…

— Travis Knight

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

— Pablo Picasso

Covering any artist's song and getting the tick of approval from them is beyond my wildest dreams.

— G Flip