Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Artists - Page 3

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

I am an illusionist. That's why I create art.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

'Human Target' was probably one of the best projects I ever worked on - that and 'Dr.Thirteen.' I just appreciated how smart Peter Milligan's writing is. It was smart and entertaining.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

Do your thing. Do it unapologetically. Don't be discouraged by criticism. You probably already know what they're going to say. Pay no mind to the fear of failure. It's far more valuable than success. Take ownership, take chances, and have fun. And no matter what, don't ever stop doing your thing.

When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.'

I think animation can tell more than live action.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

There are no nudists in cold areas.

I'm not gay - everybody thinks I am - but I dig 'The L Word.'

The mirror is a powerful tool because it forces you to deal with yourself on a deeper level. Conceptually, paintings are like mirrors. They're an expression from the artist: 'This is how I view the world - I'm presenting it to you.'

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

The universe bends to a still mind, peace be still.

I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so many amazing artists like Lionel Richie, Ronnie Wood, Sia, Steven Tyler, Swizz Beatz, Taylor Swift, James Moody, The Fifth Dimension, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Michael Jackson. It makes me smile thinking about each one of them.

I enjoyed doing the 'Tom and Jerry' cartoons, and if we had never done anything else, I would have been perfectly satisfied.

Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess.

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.

I'm not a real person. I'm a legend.

Thankfully, I have other skills than just standing there and looking cute.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

The art world's quite elitist. I tend to skirt around that world.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

I had to train myself to like spicy foods as I got older because they weren't a part of my upbringing at all.

You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.

Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.