Artist Quotes · Page 436

“love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy.”

— Hannah Mary Rothschild

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of…

— Russell Chatham

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

— Agnes de Mille

I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from…

— Julian Schnabel

Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

— Marjane Satrapi

I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail,…

— Karl Lagerfeld

I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great…

— Asher Monroe

To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98,…

— Daniel Ek

When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt…

— Greil Marcus

As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal…

— Lance Henriksen

“You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German…

— Honoré de Balzac

“If we are to redeem any part of our world from the brute march of power, we may have to begin as…

— William Barrett

“We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.”

— Oscar Wilde

If it makes you less sad, I'll take your pictures all down. Every picture you paint, I will paint myself out.

— Brand New

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

— Aberjhani

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version…

— Dean Koontz

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and…

— Cy Twombly

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

— Henri Matisse

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

— Barry Diller

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

— Douglas Sirk

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

— Josh Trank

“the first things to consider when viewing a painting are the title and subject matter.”

— Kathryn Shay

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

— Viggo Mortensen

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

— Miles Davis

Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.

— Camille Henrot

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep…

— Craig Ferguson

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

— Bruce Springsteen

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

— Kinky Friedman

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

— Luis Bunuel

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

— Rudolf Steiner

I'm a fighter now. I'm officially a mixed martial artist. I'm not a wrestler no more.

— Henry Cejudo

“I worked with a sketch artist, but I was driving fast when I saw the suspect, so the drawing came out blurry.”

— Jarod Kintz

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

— Len Wein

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

— Big Sean