Artist Quotes · Page 109

“THE one measure of worth is the art one inspired.”

— Brian S Woods

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

— Robert Hughes

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

— Auguste Rodin

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

— Thelma Golden

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

— Wendy Beckett

All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self.

— Hisham Matar

My wife is the expert, but I like art particularly. I like Van Gogh.

— Claudio Ranieri

I'm working to be a complete mixed martial artist.

— Brandon Moreno

Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking…

— Monica Johnson

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave…

— Sally Mann

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

— Catherine Camus

Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.

— Don Watson

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

— Mary Doria Russell

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the…

— Thornton Wilder

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a…

— Hans Hofmann

I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challenged by the branding of Tim…

— Tim Crouch

I never really listen to what people say. My thing is that my favorite artists are artists that are theatrical. Obviously when…

— Adam Lambert

I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but…

— Pat Metheny

I get approached to do a lot of commissioned art. Sometimes I do it, but I usually don't, given the day job…

— Tim Fish

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to…

— Albert Einstein

I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to…

— Judy Chicago

Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been…

— John Knox

Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do…

— Daveed Diggs

If you're a traveling artist, you probably experience insomnia at some point. You need things to be the right temperature, the right…

— Jon Hopkins

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

— Raymond Chandler

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

— Thomas Merton

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

— C. S. Lewis

“Every artist dips his brush into his own soul.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

— Diane Paulus

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

— Clement Greenberg

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

— Larry Kramer

I painted sets before I ever performed.

— Christopher Guest

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

— Frans de Waal

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

— Henri Matisse

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

— Paul Robeson

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

— Whoopi Goldberg

Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists.

— Lawrence Jackson

You should draw me as a cartoon as a cartoon, say hello.

— Dot Dot Curve

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself.

— Vic Mensa