Artist Quotes · Page 442

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

— Louis Aragon

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists…

— Henri Matisse

Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting…

— Cliff Chiang

Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

— Gerard Way

“You'll understand the meaning in time. It's like a chemical -- you put it out there and the reaction that it creates…

— Guy Picciotto

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

— Katherine Dunn

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

— Don Meyer

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

— Rainn Wilson

I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a…

— ASAP Rocky

For several years I've been writing 100-word pieces. More recently I've been putting them together in groups of two and three. I…

— Jim Moore

While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which…

— Joshua Reynolds

I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or…

— Gustav Klimt

“Right here people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of—or…

— David Lynch

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has…

— Peter M. Brant

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience,…

— David Mamet

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature.…

— Jacob Bronowski

“How does an artist look at the world? First, you figure out what's worth stealing, then you move on to the next…

— Austin Kleon

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.

— Walter Russell

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit…

— Christian Keiber

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

— Pierre Bonnard

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

— Darren Criss

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the…

— Curtis Jackson

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

What I'm realizing about myself as an artist is that I'm not about the glitz and the glam - I don't scream…

— Lola Young

“The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head")”

— Blaise Cendrars

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

— Jerry Saltz

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

— Eddy Grant

Life is pure adventure & the sooner we realize that, the quicker we ll be able to treat life as art

— Anonymous

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or…

— John Baldessari

As an artist, you hope you're speaking to the times, and the times are definitely speaking to you. There's no way to…

— Misha Green

I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got…

— Karunas

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

— Jean-Luc Godard

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.

— Alva Noto

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

— Sarah Dessen

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that.…

— Del Shannon

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

— Arthur Miller

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

— Pierre Bonnard

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you…

— Seth Godin

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

— Eli Siegel