Artist Quotes · Page 420

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

— Malvina Hoffman

“You may not make sense out of the incomprehensible, but you can make art.”

— John Dufress

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

— Hildegard of Bingen

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

— Edward Burtynsky

“To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.”

— David Shields

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

— Max Beckmann

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

— John Updike

“When I was a child, I never thought to myself, someday I want to be an artist or I want to write…

— Anonymous

Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status…

— Claire Danes

Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain…

— Walter J. Phillips

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I definitely enjoy working within different contexts, with different collaborators, and in different locations. I need to keep feeding myself as an…

— Mirah

Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value.…

— Oliver $

There used to be rather serious firewalls between the artist and the buying public - the gallery, the publisher. And technology demolishes…

— Jonathan Franzen

I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that…

— Jewel

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

— Josef Albers

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

— Ernst Haas

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

— Anonymous

Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

— Sara Genn

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in…

— Jane Urquhart

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't…

— Rod Taylor

Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when…

— Eric Maisel

I'm from the pre-Pro Tools era where you had to meet up with the artist and go over things if you wanted…

— DJ Premier

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

— Jeremy Begbie

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

— Marcel Dzama

“Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.”

— Amit Kalantri

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

— Georges Rouault

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

— Bruce Lee

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

— John Dyer

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm…

— Frida Giannini

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic…

— Guido Molinari

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to…

— Beth Orton

If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.

— Regina King

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

— Richard Ellmann

But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.

— E. M. Forster

It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to.

— Jeff Foxworthy

It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get…

— Lynn Nottage