Artist Quotes · Page 64

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

— Josip Novakovich

Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture

— Jim Rohn

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

— Henri Matisse

There is no perfect painting and there is no perfect solution.

— Elliott Hundley

The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.

— Jules Breton

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

— Joyce Cary

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

— Michael Ventura

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

— Haruki Murakami

“She was a work of art. Jared saw the paint and the canvas and a few pleasant shapes. Ace felt the earth…

— Kit Rocha

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

— Erno Rubik

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

— Barbra Streisand

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

— Frank Zappa

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

— Jake Barton

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

— Mel Brooks

“I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman…

— Rudyard Kipling

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really…

— Paul Weller

The most important part of my practice as an artist has been remembering to stay humble. There is so much hurt, so…

— Ezra Miller

I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things…

— Matthew Sweet

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of…

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five…

— Joe Louis Walker

As a student, you have to learn what areas are most difficult for you... Those are the same difficulties you'll have as…

— Tania Bruguera

“Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Since my Dad was an artist, I grew up around art shows and openings and that had a big impact on me…

— Christian Hosoi

Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its…

— Malvina Hoffman

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

— Steve Sabol

“Anywhere art visits turns into a gorgeous place!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

— Bruce Lee

I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

— Ridley Scott

Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash.

— Richard Roeper

“Art is not a mobocracy. It’s a republic.”

— Richard Powers

In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

— Brice Marden

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

— George Santayana

The artist must be ecstatic about something.

— Ted Shawn

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.

— E. B. Lewis

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

— Paul Bourget

No art comes from the conscious mind.

— Steve Martin

“Paint a good picture if you want to see a good image.”

— Evans Biya

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

— Joseph Beuys