Art Quote by Kadir Nelson Download Open image “I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.” — Kadir Nelson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Books Trade
I'm someone who lives with the work of artists I've been lucky enough to know or trade with. — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls... — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic. — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures,… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites. — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
When I look at American history and I look at what history means to me, I look at it as if it were a… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
Much of the message that I try to put across to students is that they have to figure out what they really like to… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
I think it's important to have confidence, but then it's also important to try to try something new, to leave your comfort zone to… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
