Artist Quotes · Page 128

“Art is the overflow of emotion into action.”

— Brian Raif

We artists allow others to see through our windows.

— Robert Genn

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

— Larry Clark

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

— Amedeo Modigliani

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

— Heather O'Neill

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

— Brian Spellman

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

— Donnis

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

— Danny Carey

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

— Richard Schmid

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously…

— V. S. Pritchett

I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work.

— Jay-Z

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

— Marya Mannes

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

— Alonzo King

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

— Thom Yorke

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

— Paul Mellon

To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.

— Eleanor Clark

Growing up, our household felt unusual because none of my friends' parents had creative jobs like mine did: my dad was an…

— Rebecca Front

I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in…

— Jean Dubuffet

I think I just have to be myself. No one can write the songs I do, and no one can sing the…

— Astrid S

I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed…

— Jon Crosby

I'm not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don't really define what it is to…

— Tones and I

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to,…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've…

— Helen Mirren

“Drawing things makes them seem more real and makes me feel more alive. It also makes me pin down and remember things…

— David Gentleman

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

— Bill Reid

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

— Sonia Sanchez

Life is short, but art lives forever.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

— Quintilian

There is nothing new in art except talent.

— Anton Chekhov

“Art is the refreshing source of existence.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

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

— Nicolas Poussin

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

— Philip Guston

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

— Ilaiyaraaja

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

— Abbi Jacobson

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

— Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

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

— Abbie Cornish

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