Artist Quotes · Page 121

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

— Robert Fripp

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

— Thornton Wilder

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

— Irving Stone

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

— Antoni Tapies

I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

— Michael Ealy

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in…

— Jane Urquhart

Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

— Sara Genn

Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when…

— Eric Maisel

I'm from the pre-Pro Tools era where you had to meet up with the artist and go over things if you wanted…

— DJ Premier

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

— Jackie DeShannon

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

— Jeanette Winterson

The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

— Renzo Piano

If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked…

— Emma Thompson

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your…

— Lisa Mangum

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of…

— Jean Dubuffet

“Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we…

— Shannon L. Alder

Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the…

— Brian Eno

People like to think the creative process is romantic. The artist drifts to sleep at night, to be awakened by the subliminal…

— Grant Achatz

Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than…

— Mati Klarwein

We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don't get…

— Erykah Badu

Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.

— Drake

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

— Gustave Flaubert

I was an artist before I got into interiors.

— Gauri Khan

All my works are games, serious game.

— M. C. Escher

I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art.

— Cornelia Parker

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

— Toni Cade Bambara

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

— Nikki Giovanni

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

— Karl Kraus

Merce is my favorite artist in any field,

— Jasper Johns

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.

— Spencer Dryden

That's the beauty of art: art is universal.

— John Kani

Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.

— Wade Guyton

“The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure.”

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

— Michelangelo

Through art, you create your own world.

— Daphne Guinness