Artist Quotes
Live riotously lest not you regret the minutes, moments, hours and days of time gone by.
Maximillian Degenerez
Artist
There's an uncanniness to living in Los Angeles, from the way you move through the city to the moments of feeling familiarity or deja vu, like you've been somewhere or you know something when you really don't.
Martine Syms
American artist
Money is a bad friend. Don't ever do anything for money.
Maurizio Cattelan
Italian visual artist
If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.
Antony Gormley
Sculptor
When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to go against control. Gunpowder has an inherent uncertainty and uncontrollability and is an important means for me to relieve myself of constraint.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Chinese artist
I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.
Bob Kane
American comic book writer
If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.
James Turrell
American artist
Before and after my debut, I've helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being exclusively an assistant. Nor have I done individual or self-published manga.
Natsuki Takaya
Japanese manga artist
My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.
Barry Mcgee
American artis
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
Bridget Riley
Painter
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
Benjamin Haydon
British painter
All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.'
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
Marjane Satrapi
French-Iranian novelist
I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.
Gil Kane
American graphic novelist
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.
Jerry Robinson
American comic book artist
Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.
Noelle Stevenson
American cartoonist
I know having a social media profile removed is a 21st century privileged problem - but it is the way a lot of us live. These profiles mimic our physical selves and a lot of the time are even more important. They are ways to connect with an audience, to start discussion, and to create change.
Petra Collins
Canadian artist
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on.
Georg Baselitz
German painter
At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if Black Lives Matter, they deserve to be in paintings.
Kehinde Wiley
American painter
One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.
Jim Lee
Chief creative officer of DC Comics
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