Artist Quotes · Page 448

I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to…

— Adam Sandler

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused…

— Dieter Rams

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living'…

— Egon Schiele

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

— Jeffrey Lewis

Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.

— Thomas Huxley

I've always drawn a lot. I like the idea of turning a 2-D sketch into a 3-D thing very quickly. And clothing…

— Giles Deacon

Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.

— Lily Cole

Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great…

— Oliver DeMille

In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes…

— Elizabeth Peyton

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As…

— Ford Madox Ford

You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and…

— Cate Blanchett

Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very…

— Alain de Botton

I don't feel like my work is impersonal - it is, in many ways, a reflection upon me - but that's ultimately…

— Landon Metz

“The Death of Allegory I am wondering what became of all those tall abstractions that used to pose, robed and statuesque, in…

— Billy Collins

I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It…

— Burton Silverman

With streaming, everything is focused on singles. That means an artist's depth doesn't have the chance to shine through.

— Joe Hisaishi

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

— Rene Huyghe

I've never seen an artist have a connection with their fans like TwentyOnePilots!

— Steve Harwell

Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.

— Fred Williams

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of…

— David Elliott

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

— Jules Verne

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have…

— Gerhard Richter

I have several plan Bs: I want to become a sailor; I like to draw; I would love to learn many things,…

— Audrey Tautou

“You can't make the good old days come back just by painting pictures of them. That kind of stuff is dead now…

— in the late 1960s Norman Rockwell

“Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

“...the line between art and garbage can be thin. Sometimes even artists cannot see it.”

— The Million Dollar Hotel

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

— Claude Monet

Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.

— Crane Wilbur

Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

— Kehinde Wiley

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

— Madonna Ciccone

“Its beautiful when we express our emotions with words, and art. Rather than allowing our ego to destroy it.”

— Zachary Koukol

I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

— Travis Scott

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

— Bruno Heller

I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music,…

— R. Kelly

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

— Andres Serrano

I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

— Haley Bennett

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

— Alison Bechdel

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.

— Wesley Morris