Artist Quotes · Page 119

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

— Brian Eno

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

— Fred Williams

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

— Christian Morgenstern

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

I was welding art from my house, making abstract figures out of metal.

— Ed Dwight

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

— Henry Fuseli

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

— Bruce Lee

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to…

— Beth Orton

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm…

— Frida Giannini

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic…

— Guido Molinari

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

— John Dyer

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

— Richard Ellmann

If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.

— Regina King

But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.

— E. M. Forster

Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates…

— Nita Engle

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art,…

— Anonymous

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano,…

— Mitchel Musso

Back in the day, even if they were singing about the same things, each artist was unique. That's why I try to…

— Sisqo

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?'…

— Hasan M. Elahi

In the world of comics, Jack Kirby and Will Eisner may have been more influential artists, but Joe Kubert was its most…

— Mark Waid

Democrats are fighting for people to be able to quit work while the rest of us pay for their health care while…

— Rush Limbaugh

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element…

— Richard Diebenkorn

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman

— Claire Bloom

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

— Henry Moore

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

— John Tenniel

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.

— George Carlin

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

— Maurice Denis

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

— Billy Cannon

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

— Jane Austen

Arijit Singh is big, is a very good artist, and we all know that.

— Ankit Tiwari

She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back.

— Bob Dylan

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

— Plato

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

— Barnett Newman

Someone name something for me to draw...I'm bored. name anything idc

— Ali

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

— Burt Young

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

— Cindy Sherman

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

— Eduardo Chillida

For an artist, there's nothing better than working with an orchestra.

— Rene Angelil