Artist Quotes · Page 447

I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme.

— Phil Lord

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

— David Hockney

To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is…

— Ai Weiwei

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

— Alan Arkin

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks…

— Julia Cameron

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

— Tim Crouch

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the…

— Honore de Balzac

The Peas is the mothership you always go to. But when you able to bring something new to the table, it makes…

— Taboo

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have…

— Camille Pissarro

Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which…

— N. T. Wright

I think that a lot of artists have succeeded in making what I might call "curator's art." Everybody's being accepted, and I…

— Jerry Saltz

Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims,…

— Howard Zehr

I think, a lot of time, when I'm making art, I'm trying to get into a state of childlike play, where I'm…

— Lisa Hanawalt

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is…

— Albert Camus

When I saw 'Hamilton,' there was so much information so fast, I had to keep up with it. I find that quality…

— Justin Peck

“Life is like a collage. Its individual pieces are arranged to create harmony. Appreciate the artwork of your life.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is…

— Ala Bashir

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with…

— Richard Schmid

Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and…

— Wynona Mulcaster

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read…

— Mark Kostabi

I like artists that tend to be more interested in reinventing themselves, in experimenting.

— Steven Wilson

The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

— Michael Scott

“the artist sees things that normal people are in too big a hurry to see.”

— Anne Charnock

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.

— Betty Goodwin

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

— Seth Godin

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

— Joseph Conrad

It's an artist's choice to speak up about social issues, but I think it's really important, and my favorite artists have spoken…

— Natalie Prass

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I think that every time a country artist steps outside of the country boundary, it just brings more ears to us.

— Kelsea Ballerini

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

— Susan Sontag

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

— Yayoi Kusama

If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

— Martin Mull

The arts are tremendously powerful in bringing people with opposing views together.

— Michael Feinstein

Constant contact is what people require these days. It's tough on artists.

— Emily Robison

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures…

— William Blake

In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.

— Kehinde Wiley