Artist Quotes · Page 456

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

— Anonymous

Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.

— Jonny Lee Miller

I dont think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I…

— Toyin Odutola

Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act…

— Alice Merton

“Successful living is an art, and finding the right balance in our lives is the work of a serious artist.”

— Michael G Sawaya

To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its…

— Harvey Dunn

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

— Clive Bell

As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

— Nadia Ali

There's so much art and it's gotten so flashy. In the global marketplace, having art that's shiny and has neon lights is…

— Jim Shaw

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to…

— Elizabeth Catlett

I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit…

— Tony Robbins

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation…

— Anonymous

I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I…

— Andy Serkis

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as…

— Georges Braque

When I talk to children, I show them a typical drawing I made when I was six and point out to them…

— Anthony Browne

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was…

— Voltaire

The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.

— Philip Pullman

Over the years with me maturing as an artist and as a person, I really learned to keep things in perspective.

— Omarion

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my…

— Jock Sturges

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

— Norman Granz

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a…

— Willow Smith

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

— Jack Levine

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

— John Lithgow

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

— Anonymous

I was always creative with the artwork. Always creative with the visuals. That's what made me standout.

— Redman

If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

— Pierre Soulages

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

— Whoopi Goldberg

Dad was a world-famous astronomer; Mom was the artist who drew the iconic Pioneer plaque.

— Nick Sagan

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

— Chuck Berry

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he…

— A. R. Rahman

With Metro Station, there were too many people trying to control us. That's not the thing you should do with an artist,…

— Trace Cyrus

How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?

— Hans Rookmaaker

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

— Antony Gormley

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

— Patrick Swift

I remembered how much I liked drawing as a kid, so I took a class on Zoom.

— Ego Nwodim

“Julia Cameron’s bestselling The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (1992).”

— Anonymous

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

— Brent Weeks

Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much…

— Nathan Sawaya

Our job is to build a company for the future that can meet the demands of the artist and fan of the…

— Michael Rapino