Artist Quotes · Page 487

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

— Hildegard of Bingen

“You may not make sense out of the incomprehensible, but you can make art.”

— John Dufress

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

— Bethany Hamilton

I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.

— Kris Wu

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I…

— Vernon Davis

“Merry Patricia Wilding was sitting on a cobblestone wall, sketching three rutabagas and daydreaming about the unicorn.”

— Laura London

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

— Jeff Koons

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

— Roger Verge

In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's…

— Laura Owens

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into…

— Walter Isaacson

What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being…

— Carter Ratcliff

I believe that the art market is in a place similar to the music industry in 2005. Big changes are coming and…

— Mark Edward

You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early…

— Tommy Mottola

Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then…

— Valie Export

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends…

— Robert Motherwell

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

— Sanford Meisner

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

— Shelley Duvall

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

— Henry Miller

I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I…

— Owen Pallett

I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

— Lady Gaga

“For all the care you put into artistry, visual polish frequently doesn’t matter if you are getting the story right.”

— Ed Catmull

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of…

— Bruno Munari

I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted…

— James Turrell

What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

— Brendan Gleeson

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I…

— Brian Selznick

Only he can be an artist who has a religion all his own - an original way of viewing infinity.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

— T. S. Eliot

I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture.

— John Marin

I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not…

— George W. Bush

“You’re trying to paint things as either black or white,” he said. “As either good or evil. It’s never that neat.”

— Diane Chamberlain

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

— Cornelia Parker

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

— George Eliot

“An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:”

— John le Carré

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

— Morgan Spurlock

Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.

— Brad Holland

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

— Ed Sheeran

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

— Claude Monet

It's not easy for an artist, especially for a girl. But you know, you just have to work very hard, persist, trust…

— Natti Natasha