Artist Quotes · Page 129

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

— Lafcadio Hearn

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

— Ski Mask the Slump God

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

— Amy Lowell

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

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

— Georges Braque

I paint life as I would like it to be,

— Norman Rockwell

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

— John Ruskin

“But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.”

— Diane Middlebrook

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

— Hans Arp

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Butler

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

— Leon Battista Alberti

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

— W. Somerset Maugham

These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.

— Frank Iero

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past…

— Pierre Boulez

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

— Anonymous

In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise…

— Joshua Reynolds

There is no separate art of life. If you know how to allow poetry, if you know how to allow dance, if…

— Anonymous

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise,…

— Edvard Munch

During the last 35 years, the artists multiplied, the public grew enormously, the economy exploded, and so-called contemporary art became fashionable. All…

— Daniel Buren

I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going…

— Patricia Piccinini

“Michelangelo said the best way to judge the essential elements of a sculpture is to throw it down a hill and the…

— Everwood

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all…

— Antony Gormley

There are so many artists these days that are trying to imitate other artists and go for a certain style; there's a…

— Mister Lies

All good art is abstract in its structure.

— Paul Strand

“W.H. Auden: “Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.”

— Anonymous

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci”

— Norman Maclean

People will definitely know that my art has something to say.

— KiKi Layne

I like to paint pictures with words, 'cause I can't draw for anything.

— Iman Shumpert

“My art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.”

— Wally Lamb We Are Water

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

— Charles Simic

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

— Michel de Montaigne

For me, the arts has always been sort of my saving grace.

— Black Thought

I know who I am as an artist. I've always known who I am as an artist.

— Lee DeWyze

A great painting is a great painting.

— Larry Poons

There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!

— Hilda Doolittle

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

— Baltasar Gracian

I'm an artist who happens to be gay.

— Big Freedia

I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

— Leonard Lauder