Artist Quotes · Page 99

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

— Orhan Pamuk

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

— Ingmar Bergman

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

— Steve Stoute

“The most beautiful work of art that we can create is this life.”

— Kristi Bowman

Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.

— Ming-Dao Deng

A painting is not made to be sniffed.

— Rembrandt

I've drawn some things that have fallen very flat.

— Gary Larson

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

— Neil Gaiman

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

— Wassily Kandinsky

The artist I would love to be is inspiring and strong: show that I can be vulnerable but still independent.

— Grace VanderWaal

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

— Morgan Fairchild

“Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the…

— Eric Samuel Timm

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut…

— Elizabeth Aston

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is through¦ Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

— Oscar Wilde

I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb!

— MC Lars

“An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Draw this as you read it… there once was a man who had no arms , he lost his dog and cryed…

— Auntykk

I feel like it's not so much a tradition as a system that has been codified over the centuries starting in the…

— David Salle

“Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there…

— William H. Gass

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who,…

— Bernard Berenson

I think it's very important for artists to get their flowers. As artists, sometimes we do be in a dark space, and…

— Rich Homie Quan

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can…

— Claude Monet

My family has artists, but they are all working artists. They are not movie stars. They don't get paid. I really respect…

— Emory Cohen

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

— Jacob Epstein

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

— Karl Kraus

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

— Gunter Grass

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

— David Hockney

As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.

— Robert Smithson

Art is most effective when concealed.

— Ovid

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

— Andy Warhol

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

— Helmut Jahn

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

— Tom Stoppard

Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.

— Luis Fonsi

Being called a new artist doesn't bother me at all.

— Ashley McBryde

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

— Bertolt Brecht

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.

— Jonathan Richman

“One day I’ll paint the perfect sunset-- if I can only find the words.”

— Atticus Poetry

A picture is a personal diary where only the artist knows the meaning.

— Melchor Lim

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

— Claude Debussy