Artist Quotes

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it...

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people wh...

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love th...

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the ea...

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some con...

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like...

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, yo...

I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guit...

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indol...

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint t...

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has inc...

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence...

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic ...

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the...

As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.

Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artis...

You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help...

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling com...

And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pl...

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meiste...

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they gi...

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious...

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style,...

Curiosity is the main energy...

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts--such is the duty of the artist.

But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pa...

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the cre...

When I use the word rebel for the artist, I do not refer to revolutionary or to such things as takin...

Opposites though they are, both solitude and solidarity are essential if the artist is to produce wo...

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

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

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second,...

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt....

If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100...

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "comple...

Every world needed an artist.

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform ...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They'l...

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got ...

I'm full of dust and guitars...

Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting tha...

I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. Th...

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I start...

There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her...

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is les...

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. Wh...

The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns....

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, s...

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such auth...

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates ...

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. ...

Realism without naturalism... is a leading motif in Modern Art. There is a move away from the strugg...

The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the arti...

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but...

We can all be clockmakers, or astronomers. But if we all wanted to be Pushkin. . .if the question is...

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have h...

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no...

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn...

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.

One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a pain...

Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, cha...

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with...

You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things...

I notice I may have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Cantr...

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a jou...

It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the c...

Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are...

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' The...

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagi...

Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that inte...