Artist Quotes · Page 53

I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.

— Martin Freeman

“You think the thing, draw the picture and then it happens.”

— Stephen Richards

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

— Lee Krasner

When artists die early, they become idols even more.

— Agnes Varda

“Love is an art. Mine could fill a museum the size of your heart.”

— Jarod Kintz

2Pac the only artist that ever made me shed a tear.

— Boosie

“Romantic art begins with its climax.”

— Oscar Wilde

A painter knows how to paint, but an artist knows when to stop.

— Jae Hill

I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is…

— Invader

“...there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in…

— R.A. Dickey

At this point, in 2008, if you put out a book, a movie, or write a verse, paint a painting, it should…

— Black Thought

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

— Kiki Smith

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by,…

— John Bellamy Foster

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

— Lana Del Rey

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just…

— Domenico Gnoli

I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For…

— Marc Jacobs

Roc was only supposed to be our distributor, but then they ended up recruiting me as the label's artist. They said they…

— Jay Park

I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never…

— Nick Lowe

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep…

— Nigel Cooke

I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense.…

— Sheila Walsh

Vermont's a place where barns come painted / Red as a strong man's heart, Where stout carts and stout boys in freckles,…

— Robert Tristram Coffin

There is no short-cut to art, one has to work hard, be open and flexible in your mind, keep the child alive…

— Bente Borsum

It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. How the artist captured the light, the details of my mother's dimples, the…

— Ellen Schreiber

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

— David LaChapelle

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

— Paul Gauguin

I don't ask other artists for too much advice.

— Blake Shelton

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

— Remy de Gourmont

“The decadent artist markets other people's pain”

— Jennifer Birkett

The goal of art is to inspire people to look inward.

— Chris Sullivan

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

— Alexander McQueen

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

— JR

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

— John Ruskin

It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up.

— Robert Hilburn

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

— Isamu Noguchi

I'm an athlete, but first and foremost I'm a martial artist.

— Dan Hardy

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

— John French Sloan

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

— Iris Murdoch