Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Artists - Page 2

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.

There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

I don't care what people think about me. When I look in the mirror, I wanna like what I see.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is the American experience.

When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.

Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that.

Every morning, we choose between milk or tea or coffee. Usually, I know what I like, but I don't rule out changing my idea sometimes. The editing process is one of the most important parts in everyday life. The same is with my work: mistakes are part of the decision-making process.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

I thought my father was biggest, tallest, smartest, handsomest man in the world, so if he was telling me something, I was taking it really seriously.

There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself.

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

There's a whole world of people out here whose experiences are not being reflected in the media that they're reading. And that does affect the way we view ourselves... and the people we think we can be.

Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.

Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful and delightful thing. There is nothing more intimate than really looking at someone.

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

My practice is focused on bodies and relationships; the relationships between people and other creatures, between people and our bodies, between creatures and the environment, between the artificial and the natural.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

Silence is so accurate.

When I started working at Pictures On Walls, I'd been hanging out with Banksy for a few years travelling around the world together painting stuff, and then we moved into a new office and wanted to do screenprinting.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

You live till you die, and that's the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.

Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.

Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.

I never look at things again once they're done.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.