Creative person Quote by Kenya Barris

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I want to make art that is helpful, that's useful to people, that starts fruitful conversations. That makes you think about a question that…

— Kerry Bishe

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.

— Richard Billingham

Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.

— Gerald Brommer

Choose to give your creative art priority over other things. You can do it.

— Nita Leland

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints…

— Raymond Pettibon

You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus…

— Chuck Close

As an artist, I feel a certain responsibility to write about difficult subject matter.

— Jesmyn Ward

I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.

— Robert Barry

I have very little interest in endlessly telling people about my artistic process. It sounds like throwing yourself against a wall and crying. It's…

— Laurel Nakadate

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art…

— Brooke McEldowney

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

— Stacy Martin