Artist Quotes · Page 445

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small…

— Howard Hodgkin

“A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists.”

— John Steinbeck

I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

— Billy Connolly

“Every writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm perfecting my craft as an artist and as a performer, and my shows are getting better each time.

— Cordae

The thing about Sheeran is that he is an incredibly real artist and songwriter. He is not trying to be anybody else…

— Lauv

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

— Robert Delaunay

Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality…

— Beatrice M. Hinkle

Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to…

— Carlos Bulosan

For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very…

— Nathan Oliveira

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But…

— Leonard Nimoy

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break…

— Michelangelo

I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of…

— Rolf Harris

Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in…

— Katherine Anne Porter

I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork…

— Ace Hood

If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.

— William McDonough

Sometimes we were really surprised. There were major artists that would come by because they wanted to.

— Jancee Dunn

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any…

— Marilyn Nelson

Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her…

— Sally Warner

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

— Brian Eno

For me, there's no point in being an artist and putting yourself out there if you're not going to really put yourself…

— Brian Fallon

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

— Pablo Picasso

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of…

— Vita Sackville-West

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits…

— John Ruskin

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

— Anne Sexton

The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of…

— Gary Holland

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

— John Constable

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

— Owen Jones

I'm so obsessed with the idea of creating a mixtape that feels really authentic to each artist.

— Lola Young

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

— Simon Schama

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

— Chris Lowe

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell…

— Corey Taylor

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

— Adam Ant

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was…

— David Salle

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

— Michael Scott

“She doesn't attend gallery openings or apear at art-world parties. "People need to see the work. It's more me than my physical…

— Jan Greenberg

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes...

— Eric Maisel

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to…

— Ariel Pink