Artist Quotes · Page 460

If you want to release your own single, there cannot be a better launch than going to Los Angeles and collaborating with…

— Parineeti Chopra

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out…

— Jasper Johns

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

— Talib Kweli

“But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.”

— Tom Dolby

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

— Michele Cassou

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at…

— Banksy

Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

— Stephen Sondheim

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a…

— Philip Guston

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what…

— Sam Hunt

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a…

— Walter Gropius

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to…

— Corita Kent

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the…

— Osbert Sitwell

I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter…

— Edgar Degas

My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an…

— Cameron Crowe

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the…

— Saul Williams

In my opinion, the most dangerous thing an artist can do in this day and age is not embrace the present.

— JPEGMAFIA

“Asher Lev, an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.”

— Chaim Potok

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

— Paulo Coelho

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

— James Elkins

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

— Theodore Dreiser

“Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a…

— Anonymous

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

— Oscar Wilde

I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound…

— Banksy

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

— Tim McGraw

That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a…

— Dana Schutz

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

— Winston Churchill

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is…

— Louise Bogan

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

— Pierce Brosnan

Everybody wants freedom. You don't want to be shackled, especially as an artist. Nobody wants to be shackled, at the end of…

— Denzel Curry

I don't think you can be as successful as an artist like Robbie Williams unless you're thinkin' about yourself 24 hours a day.

— Paul Young

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

— Persis Khambatta

There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

— Erik Parker

Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life

— Pavel Florensky

Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

— John Cage

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

— Bill Jay

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

— Lawrence Durrell

Im a tenant my opinion is monumental Im here forever, these other n-ggas scribble in pencil.

— Wale

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

— Seth Godin

Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!

— Jim Steranko