Artist Quotes · Page 483

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.”

— Nuno Roque

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post…

— Deborah Kass

Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.

— Judy Dater

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

— Abbey Lincoln

In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very…

— Bridget Riley

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture.

— Julio Iglesias

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

That's the age that people are exploited, exploitable, and they're easily manipulated. The problem with me is, you can't manipulate me anymore.…

— Billy Corgan

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is…

— Aaron Rose

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ...…

— Galileo Galilei

“Inherent in the artist's creative inspiration is the process of subliminally sniffing out environmental change," observed McLuhan in a 1969 interview. "It's…

— John W. Whitehead

Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a…

— Alexander Rodchenko

I feel that puttin' in the hours and years in the studio, honing my craft, definitely played a part, me consciously networking…

— Nipsey Hussle

As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always…

— Shaun Tan

Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film…

— Jon Landau

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

— Joni Mitchell

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

— Eddie Cahill

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of…

— Anonymous

“From Portrait of a Landscape I think art only exists when it's being made. It's like a flower. Once picked, it starts…

— Daniel D. Watkins

Be careful how you speak to people and how you treat people, life if the art of drawing without an eraser

— Anonymous

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable.”

— Marina Leigh Duff

“An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it.”

— Christopher Moore

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

— Salvador Dali

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the…

— Rumi

I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.

— David Bowie

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

— Kanye West

Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because its scary.

— Tyler Farr

I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.

— George C. Wolfe

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

— Kevin Costner

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you…

— Dianna Agron

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive…

— Frederick Sommer

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

— Agnes Martin

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

— Ron Silver

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

— Christina Aguilera

We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to…

— Beyonce Knowles

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

— Diego Rivera

As an artist, my only relationship to my audience is through my work. That relationship is sacred to me.

— Parvathy