Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Artists - Page 20

It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.

Islam is not about “we’re better than you”. Rather it is about “let me show you something that is better for you

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold.

Maybe in the world of BoJack, physical attraction is sort of different, beauty standards are different from our world because, why not? It's just more fun to have a sexy chameleon or a blue-tongued skink or whatever. I don't know how subversive that is, but it's fun for me.

Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

About the only way you can find out about the common man, his slang, what he looked like, what he thought, is through the comic strips. It's a powerful way for young people to learn history.

I would say my whole first record, 'Steady On,' had a lot to do with healing.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

I would never make fun of anyone who is obviously disabled who cannot defend himself, like Donald Trump.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.'

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

I'm just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.

You're as good as the people you're with.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

The grunge scene is not what I'm interested in.

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

In my family, growing up, the women were always the ones who were powerful, and they exuded this charisma of empowerment that I hold onto and always remember. I had some difficult times, but these strong women were always a constant.

The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is... not about economics at all.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.

I'm not a great boss because I don't like to tell other people what to do.

Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.

When I was younger I didn't want to listen to anybody, but now more than ever where I am in my life I understand how important it is to listen, observe, absorb, and let that all come out through your music.

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Every day, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals but helps the environment.

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

Art is for everybody.