Famous Artist Quotes

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant.

Where there is Peace, there is Culture; Where there is Culture, there is Peace.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power.

I believe your success is based off what your goals are. Are you trying to feed your family or have plaques on the wall and be broke? In that case, I think the game is in a better place. We have all heard of famous artists who are broke. Then we know of artists who may have had only a song or two on radio, but have a million or two dollars off that quick come up.

The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

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

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Everything you can imagine is real.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character because they want to win. They want their views to prevail.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

The painting has a life of its own

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