Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Artists - Page 15

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.

There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

'Nimona' is about identity and if who you are is defined by what you look like. It's not a book about body image at all, but I would be lying if I said that wasn't in there even at the conception of it.

Damn everything but the circus.

I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them.

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

When you're watching 'Armageddon,' and the Aerosmith song starts... Super funny.

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.

When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.

At a certain point, you have to decide whether you'd be satisfied always acknowledging the beauty and the greatness of what other people create or if you want to be in the same arena.

The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

When I was growing up and until I got married, I had some times when I felt a bit lonely and a little bit isolated - even after I got married.

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.

If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.

Representation is a sort of surveillance.

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life: the sun will not rise, or set, without my notice and thanks.

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.

The hardest thing about being a manga-ka is that it's a weekly thing.

Artists talk in 'art speak.'

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value.

Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon, a sort of reverse archaeology.

Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic spaces, because at least then you know your limits.

It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free.

To me, great advertising can make food taste better, can make your car run smoother. It can change your perception of something. Is it wrong to change your perception about something? Of course not. I'm not lying; I'm just saying, 'This one's more fun, this one's more exciting.'