Artist Quotes · Page 488

There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.

— Kimon Nicolaides

“I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there.”

— Anonymous

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

— Zaha Hadid

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

— Isamu Noguchi

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go…

— John Kindness

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my…

— Martha Wainwright

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them…

— Chuck Jones

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

— Pablo Picasso

One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I…

— Jeff Bridges

In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe…

— Gerald Stern

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in…

— Helen Frankenthaler

“She’s also quite the master carver, as her sculptures attest, even if her medium is rather morbid. Ana carves things out of…

— Heather R. Blair

Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift,…

— Cassandra Clare

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a…

— Karen Armstrong

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive…

— Sigmar Polke

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies,…

— Pauli Murray

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's…

— George Sutherland

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

— Bill Sienkiewicz

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

— Steven Wilson

I always thought Stuart deserved a little bit of fame. He was a gifted artist and a very wonderful person.

— Astrid Kirchherr

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

— Ram Dass

Challenges to the sculptor who fashioned the human personality is running the diamond

— Mak_786

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until…

— David Hockney

There's a lot of heart to Bob's work that doesn't always get recognized because of all of the sensuality, dark statements and…

— Ann Reinking

The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The…

— Vsevolod Meyerhold

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

— Al Jourgensen

The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician

— Poul Henningsen

Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'

— Nell Scovell

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express…

— Nas

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

— Nicole Kidman

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

— Graeme Base

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art…

— Matthew Collings

I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

— Neil Diamond

I don't want to be that artist who's doing the teenage angst thing and draw it out my whole career.

— Kevin Abstract

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

— Lawrence Lessig

A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it.

— Munira Mirza

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

— Eckhart Tolle

“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

— Vincent Van Gogh

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

— Jerry Saltz