Top 1200 Woman Artist Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think." And Franklin replied,"Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think?"

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

If a song is being written for a woman, there should be a woman in the room collaborating.

On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.

Until you become a woman you don't know the things that come with being a woman.

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work, then I was never an artist.

In Africa, the woman was co-equal. In Europe, the woman was a vassal. To some extent, she still is.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

I've never wanted to be a woman playing a guy; I love being a woman.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

What kind of woman tries to fat-shame a heavily pregnant woman?

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

A woman's manly side is what's sexy--a woman standing strongly, fighting to be desired.

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.

When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And I’m dying to meet the artist.

Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.

Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could see how she could be misunderstood by a lot of people, but she is really passionate about her art, and that's something I really admire about her.

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama's 'Hope' poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It's pretty serious. Detroit officials say the artist's spray paint caused over $9,000 worth of improvements.

A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

A novel is 400 pages; it's an endurance race. There's no artist, so I have to describe everything. It's all prose. Whereas with comics, I can rely on the artist. It's really wonderful to have that collaboration and to not always feel the burden of describing everything myself and also just to have someone who can paint the world.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.

My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.

I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within.

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.

I think it's high time that we had a woman president. But I don't want to elect someone just because she's a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women.

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.

I'll admit that I am not always 100 percent confident because I'm a woman. I'm a woman and I'm human.

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

I would want them to really think about how amazing they are and how lucky they are to be a woman. And how powerful they are. And I'd tell them to love every day of it because it's the biggest miracle and a woman that's able to give birth is the most important, lucky, fortunate woman in the world.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

For me, there is safety in playing a woman that is very sexualized and having a woman direct you with that.

I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.

There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

When I am designing, I keep in mind more the American woman than the French woman.