Artist Quotes · Page 425

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

— Zoey Deutch

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

— Jorg Immendorff

I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had…

— Francisco Costa

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

— Pablo Picasso

“Art supersedes knowledge written in books. Art is the muse. Art is magic settling upon your he[art] like dust.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.

— Richard McGuire

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

— Maynard James Keenan

Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the…

— Eric Maisel

I always did drawings. Then, few years ago, I started working with large-scale paper. It's an extension of performance, because the pieces…

— Rebecca Horn

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas…

— Edward Hopper

Actually, it's the beauty of independent music that the artist can feature in his own videos and be the face of it.…

— Guru Randhawa

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken…

— Alain LeRoy Locke

The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and…

— Moby

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others…

— Francis Ford Coppola

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our…

— Barbara Jordan

Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many…

— Dan Brown

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

— Anonymous

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

— C. S. Lewis

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches…

— Anonymous

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

— Hilary Rosen

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

— Gustave Flaubert

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on…

— David Bowie

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how…

— Josh Groban

This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness…

— Shawn Crahan

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

— Pras Michel

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

— Rebecca West

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

— Niall Horan

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You…

— M. Night Shyamalan

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

— Junot Diaz

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture.

— Julio Iglesias

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

— Joni Mitchell

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

— Judy Dater

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

— Abbey Lincoln

In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very…

— Bridget Riley

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

— Eddie Cahill

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of…

— Anonymous

“From Portrait of a Landscape I think art only exists when it's being made. It's like a flower. Once picked, it starts…

— Daniel D. Watkins

“I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable.”

— Marina Leigh Duff

Be careful how you speak to people and how you treat people, life if the art of drawing without an eraser

— Anonymous