Artist Quotes · Page 486

If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.

— Regina King

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

— Richard Ellmann

It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get…

— Lynn Nottage

It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

— Sara Genn

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't…

— Rod Taylor

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in…

— Jane Urquhart

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

— Ernst Haas

“Thanks for your encouraging words. But I know the grim realities of being an artist. Most of us would never make a…

— Abhaidev

Make your life your art. It doesn't have to be that you're an artist. I know I talk about art a lot,…

— Gerard Way

We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he…

— Marc Chagall

“As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep…

— Amit Kalantri

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is…

— Pablo Picasso

I've listened to 'Frank' so many times. She was so honest and herself. I think one of the hardest things for an…

— Jorja Smith

The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood,…

— Craig McCracken

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I…

— Michael Haneke

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

— Anonymous

I'm from the pre-Pro Tools era where you had to meet up with the artist and go over things if you wanted…

— DJ Premier

Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when…

— Eric Maisel

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

— Jeremy Begbie

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

— Georges Rouault

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

— Marcel Dzama

“Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.”

— Amit Kalantri

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

— Edward Burtynsky

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.”

— David Shields

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

— Josef Albers

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

— Max Beckmann

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

— John Updike

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

“Paint it as you see it,' he had said in his lifetime. 'Even if it's a sunny day but you see darkness…

— Ruta Sepetys

Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.

— Roisin Murphy

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I paint a picture of my pain for the world to see, could paint a picture of the game but my girl…

— Anonymous

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

— Emma Goldman

“I didn't originally intend to be an artist; I was much more interested in decorative arts--daily life, beautiful objects.”

— Helaine Posner

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean…

— Amy Sherald

I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a…

— Willis Earl Beal

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

— Malvina Hoffman