Artist Quotes · Page 107

Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

— Sonia Sanchez

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

— Bill Reid

Anybody who digs your art, you what to share it with.

— Danny Carey

A lot of artists just put on the people they can make money off of.

— Donnis

“That's art. Nothing is for everybody.”

— Brian Spellman

Life is short, but art lives forever.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing new in art except talent.

— Anton Chekhov

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

— Quintilian

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

— Anne Bogart

I constantly compare myself to artists who have, like, 10 times the budget I do. My mind is the biggest challenge, honestly.

— Verite

I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as…

— Mika

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I…

— Ben Sollee

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

— Susan Sontag

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

— Mayim Bialik

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

— David Bowie

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

— David Crabb

Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is…

— T.I

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to…

— Patti Smith

Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor...…

— Keith Floyd

The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be…

— Sean O'Casey

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium…

— Freeman Patterson

It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America…

— George Carlin

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around…

— Bill Viola

I invest because I'm really a firm believer in letting the artist make their work, if you choose to work with an…

— Piper Perabo

This is where my notoriety comes from right now: from action art.

— Michael Israel

Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists

— Marcel Duchamp

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

— Philip Guston

Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.

— Nicolas Poussin

“Art is the refreshing source of existence.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

If anything can be art, then anyone can be an artist.

— Abbi Jacobson

Taking legal action against pirates is a headache for artists like me.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

— Abbie Cornish

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

— Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

— Georges Braque

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

— Milford Zornes

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

— Amy Lowell

I've always wanted to make that change from a rapper into an artist.

— Ski Mask the Slump God

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

— Lafcadio Hearn

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.

— Paul Laffoley

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

— John Irving