Artist Quotes · Page 103

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

— Jackson Pollock

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

— Carolee Schneemann

In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

— Mason Cooley

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

— Sigfried Giedion

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

— Abderrahmane Sissako

“From now on, consider yourself a con artist.”

— Carsten Jensen

I always knew I was an artist, and even more importantly, a star.

— Van Hunt

“I think a lot of art is trying to make someone love you.”

— Keaton Henson

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

— David Hockney

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Realistically there is no limit to the possibilities. How does an artist make decisions?

— Mike Svob

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.

— Tracey Emin

“But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.”

— William S. Burroughs

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and…

— Robert Hughes

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

— Alain de Botton

I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize…

— Brett Morgen

For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be…

— Janet Fish

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the…

— Susan Sontag

The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest…

— Alan Cohen

Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel…

— Leonard Peikoff

“and a manner so peculiar and romantic, and extraneous, and ad libitum, and heart-searching, that—that—he—he is an impressionist, I presume?" "No," said…

— Mark Twain

“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet…

— Peter Shaffer

In terms of breaking an artist traditionally, it was in the form of radio. You had to pop your record off there.…

— B-Real

ART DOESNT HAVE TO BE PRETTY IT HAS TO HAVE A MEANING

— DUANE HANSON

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

— Andre Malraux

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

— Edward Hopper

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

— Gore Vidal

The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it.

— The Weeknd

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

— William Blake

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

— Isaac Hanson

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

— Robert Musil

Your painting is a measure of your mind.

— Millard Sheets

Remember the time we used to get on the computer just for paint?

— Anonymous

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

— Paul Simon

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

— Camille Henrot

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

— Dylan Thomas

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

— Gary Busey