Artist Quotes · Page 104

I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

— Joe Cocker

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

— Arthur Symons

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

— Mason Cooley

“Other times, the art becomes a condition—incredibly fitting.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

— Marilyn Manson

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

— Marilyn Manson

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

— Ray Bradbury

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

— Yolanda King

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

— Harold Rosenberg

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore,

— Jean Dubuffet

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

— Fran Lebowitz

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

— Abbi Jacobson

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

— Clara Schumann

Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.

— Mary Beth McKenzie

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of…

— Julia Cameron

I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

— Romeo Santos

I always did drawings. Then, few years ago, I started working with large-scale paper. It's an extension of performance, because the pieces…

— Rebecca Horn

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas…

— Edward Hopper

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was…

— Jeffrey Wright

Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have…

— Todd Rundgren

It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that…

— Clement Greenberg

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in…

— Walker Evans

“An I Q cannot measure artistic ability. A potential Picasso may be a flop at objective vocabulary or number tests. An I…

— Madeleine L'Engle

They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV…

— Sherman Alexie

In any art, unpredictability is the delightful factor.

— M. Jayachandran

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

— Yoko Ono

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

— Seth MacFarlane

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

— Shaquille O'Neal

It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.

— Stephane Mallarme

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

— Odilon Redon

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

— Jerry Saltz

“And what arts did he use to separate them?”

— Jane Austen

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

— Pablo Picasso

I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing.

— Margaret Keane

I love to draw, although I wish I was better at it.

— Fred Willard

I love art. It really changes my mood and wakes me up.

— Killer Mike

In my eyes, either you appreciate art or you don't.

— Shobana

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

— Andy Goldsworthy

I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'

— Eric Whitacre

“The purpose of art is to provide what life does not.”

— Tom Robbins