Artist Quotes · Page 465

I'm an artist because of how I do things, not because I'm trying to be one.

— The-Dream

“Tragic art is the organization of a small portion of an otherwise meaningless world that gives purpose to an individual existence.”

— Joshua Foa Dienstag

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“I think, if one is a true art lover, he can't stick to a particular genre. Art knows no partitions, no boundaries.”

— SaketKr

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

— Eugene Delacroix

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

— John Hughes

When I read Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home,' it was the first time I saw drawings that looked like me.

— Camille Perri

I've always thought that, especially in the arts, people put this currency on being deep and mysterious and aloof. To hell with…

— Sam Ryder

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their…

— Jerry Saltz

Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it…

— Friedrich Schiller

Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his…

— Criss Jami

For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never…

— Francois Mitterrand

The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only…

— Joaquin Sorolla

In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are…

— F. R. Leavis

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present…

— Linda Lavin

Nirvana's amazing, but they're just never going to find another one, there's no artist development anymore, you're never going to have a…

— Richard Patrick

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

— Damien Hirst

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

— Margaret Atwood

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

— Alberto Giacometti

Don't give up. It's really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says.

— Judy Chicago

I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.

— James Bernard Frost

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and…

— Thomas Hoving

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

— Steven Wilson

“Art is something that we know it lie to us. Someone who like art; they lie to themselves.”

— ASAID

I love drawing. It's a passion of mine, and I'm a creative person. I always have my sketch book with me.

— Brook Lopez

“<...> out of love of symmetry, just as people put two vases above a fireplace.”

— Guy de Maupassant

“Why did you paint a couch in the middle of the jungle?" Rousseau: "Because one has a right to paint one's dreams.”

— Henri Rousseau

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a…

— Jerry Saltz

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I…

— Kristin Chenoweth

Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“My professional opinion and diagnosis as a graphic designer and photographer is that Kate Gosselin is mentally ill”

— Robert Hoffman

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

— Deb Caletti

I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just…

— Carly Chaikin

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

— Roy DeCarava

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

— Ansel Adams

I started out as being a diva in a golden dress and now to a more bearded drag artist guy in boots.

— Conchita Wurst

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

— Lu Xun

I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.

— Gaspard Ulliel

A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.

— Leo Tolstoy