Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Artists - Page 4

I hate painting.

What you see is what you see.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot.

I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can't drop that. It's reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.

I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

Nothing is over until you quit.

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.

Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply asking people to open their eyes.

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now and it is harder to run away from them. It would be embarrassing for an older man to get arrested by someone half your age. So I gave up running.

Art transcends cultural boundaries.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.

I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.

When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.

My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Time flies whether you are having fun or not.

I thought the first thing the pirates would do is take me out if they thought an attack was imminent. I really didn't see a good outcome.

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

I don't think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have to feel good about who you are and that you could do something to change things.

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

Live your life so that you’ll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.

I'm a black American, and I'm proud to represent who and where I'm from - unapologetically. There's no shame in my game.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.