Artist Quotes · Page 421

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go…

— John Kindness

“I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there.”

— Anonymous

There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.

— Kimon Nicolaides

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

— Zaha Hadid

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

— Isamu Noguchi

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them…

— Chuck Jones

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

— Pablo Picasso

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my…

— Martha Wainwright

For me, it's really important that the experience of art is always something that is able to provoke strong emotion, an emotion…

— Camille Henrot

We're going to do three things: teach-ins across the country so people can learn about each other's issues and causes; parties with…

— Van Jones

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by…

— Stephen Bayley

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without…

— Steve Toltz

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the…

— Theodor Adorno

Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is…

— T.I

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to…

— Patti Smith

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's…

— George Sutherland

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture.

— John Marin

I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not…

— George W. Bush

“You’re trying to paint things as either black or white,” he said. “As either good or evil. It’s never that neat.”

— Diane Chamberlain

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

— Cornelia Parker

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

— George Eliot

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

— Ed Sheeran

Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.

— Brad Holland

“An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:”

— John le Carré

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

— Morgan Spurlock

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

— Claude Monet

It's not easy for an artist, especially for a girl. But you know, you just have to work very hard, persist, trust…

— Natti Natasha

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of…

— Bruno Munari

I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted…

— James Turrell

What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

— Brendan Gleeson

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I…

— Brian Selznick

Only he can be an artist who has a religion all his own - an original way of viewing infinity.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

— T. S. Eliot

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I…

— Vernon Davis

I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.

— Kris Wu

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

— Jeff Koons

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

— Roger Verge