Artist Quotes · Page 86

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

— Sylvia Plath

I still come closest to success with drawing.

— Paul Klee

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

— Selima Hill

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.

— Mati Klarwein

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

— Roman Polanski

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

— Marc Chagall

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

— H. E. Bates

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

— Edward Hopper

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

— Richard Serra

“A composer who can lift the spirit of a million people with a song, is a definite force for good.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

— Clement Greenberg

“There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.”

— Criss Jami

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is…

— Yayoi Kusama

I like doing things I haven't learnt about yet. I've always been interested in art, and I love doing art.

— Arthur Smith

Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.

— Michael Chow

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

— Wassily Kandinsky

The less subsidy we have, the more the 'producers' take over, and the 'bottom line' becomes the raison d'etre. That's quite an…

— Marianne Elliott

What really happened was one day in my late five I went out and I found my dad in the garage staining…

— Autumn de Forest

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating…

— Gerhard Richter

I think some people have this thing where just because you do singles that means you're not a real artist. It's like…

— Jonas Blue

When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with…

— Curtis Jackson

First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they've done and…

— Nicholas Meyer

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did…

— Arthur Erickson

“White-walled once. Red-roofed. But painted in weather-colors now. With brushes dipped in nature’s palette. Mossgreen. Earth-brown. Crumbleblack”

— Arundhati Roy

“Criticise privately but compliment publicly.”

— Amit Kalantri

There are a lot of young artists that are dope.

— Keith Sweat

All any artist can do is please themselves.

— William Shatner

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

— Lucian Freud

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

— Eric Maisel

“This life is your canvas; what will you make it?”

— Jayce O'Neal

“Create art. Not just an art, but thermo fucking nuclear art.”

— Randy Gage

Indian artists are working with a history that's overwhelming and rich.

— David Linley

Every good painter paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

“...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.”

— J.G. Ballard

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

— James Taylor

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

— Giorgio Moroder

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

— Salvador Dali