Artist Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Giorgio Morandi’s paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.”
– Jerry Saltz

“Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.
– Jerry Saltz

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It’s nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I’m trying to steal from the real people.”
– John Hawkes

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
– John Keats

“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.”
– John Lennon

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
– John W. Gardner

“Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated – like I didn’t have a community of artists.”
– Joni Mitchell

“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark.”
– Joni Mitchell

“I didn’t want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.”
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.”
– Karl Wilhelm

“At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19… and it was devastating.”
– Katy Perry

?”When it is working, you completely go into another place, you’re tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That’s what it’s all about.”
– Keith Haring

“I love my body. I’m very much OK with it. I don’t think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.”
– Kelly Clarkson

“I think I’m inspired mostly by other artists that aren’t actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.”
– Kristin Scott Thomas

“My name is Kurt Schwitters… I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.”
– Kurt Schwitters

“And now, I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.”
– Lady Gaga

“When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. ”
– Lady Gaga

“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”
– Laurie Halse Anderson

“You don’t know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It’s all in the practice.”
– Lauryn Hill

“My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren’t deeply truly artistic if that wasn’t the way you were engaging the press.”
– Lena Dunham

“I’m more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.”
– Lenny Kravitz

“I’ve been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I’m not any one thing at all.”
– Lenny Kravitz

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.”
– Magdalena

“Great art picks up where nature ends.”
– Marc Chagall

“It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.”
– Maria Jeritza

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