Artist Quotes · Page 423

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

— Dan Thompson

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

— Dennis Hopper

I love looking at sculpture, but there's some sort of spell that's broken with it.

— Joe Bradley

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

— Gerard Malanga

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

— Noel Gallagher

When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

— Paula Scher

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought…

— Vidya Balan

I don't know if I am confident about my art, but I certainly am committed to it.

— Victor Banerjee

Through sharing my pain, I can possibly heal your pain. There is no other feeling like it. Money doesn't compare. This is…

— Richard Cabral

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have…

— John Schlesinger

You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true…

— Laurence Overmire

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just…

— Rita Mae Brown

It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what…

— Julian Barnes

For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the…

— Lewis Hyde

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young…

— Isaac Stern

The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked…

— Max Delbruck

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

— Chris Hedges

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

— Romare Bearden

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

— Lana Del Rey

Whoa.. all these broken hearts on that poll. Man if poll dancing's a art you know how many fu-kin artist I know.

— Drake

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

— Margaret Atwood

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

— Chath Piersath

Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything,…

— Marcel Duchamp

When you become your own boss, and your artwork becomes your livelihood, it becomes the only thing you think about.

— Jinkx Monsoon

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

— N. C. Wyeth

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

— John F. Carlson

“start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really…

— Eero Saarinen

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream.”

— Paul Gauguin

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye…

— John Legend

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

— Jay Sankey

I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be…

— Dan Povenmire

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

— Jeanette Winterson

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

— Jackie DeShannon

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

— Renzo Piano

The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that…

— Doseone