Artist Quotes · Page 482

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

— Amanda Palmer

Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.

— Philipp Otto Runge

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

— Zoey Deutch

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

— Jorg Immendorff

“[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.”

— Neville Weston

“Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.”

— Charles Ray

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

— Parker Posey

“We often walk without knowing the beautiful and the mysterious art created behind us by our shadows.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting…

— John Constable

Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so…

— Billy Crystal

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business…

— Marshall McLuhan

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people…

— LeRoy Neiman

I think the true artist - musician, dancer, writer, actor - a true artist is able to sort of articulate pain and…

— Black Thought

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less…

— Thornton Wilder

I made a conscious decision to take my life and career in a different direction. I started working on a play, and…

— Scott Cohen

When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But…

— Brice Marden

Life is a artwork. And the picture you paint is what describes who you are.

— Emanuel Sebastiao

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

— Alan Watts

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

— LeRoy Neiman

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music -…

— Rosanne Cash

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

— Roger Scruton

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

— Walter J. Phillips

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to…

— Eric Drooker

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

— John French Sloan

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people…

— Robert Henri

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

— Robert Breault

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

— Samuel Barnett

The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.

— Robert Indiana

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

— Iris Murdoch

I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

— Jonathan Lethem

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

— Lord Acton

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

— Gerald Scarfe

My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada…

— Kurt Schwitters

Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters?

— Henri Matisse

I often find that people want to paint themselves one colour - like, 'I'm the baddie' - and they've always got this…

— Toby Kebbell