Artist Quotes · Page 133

“In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes.”

— Adorno, Theodor W

Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.

— Genesis P-Orridge

“An artist's job is to make new clichés.”

— Grayson Perry

Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

— Thomas Merton

I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

The more far-out artists, the better.

— Gary Wright

My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times.

— Justin Tranter

No matter how incredible you are as a person, as an artist, if you have all these negative people around you, it's…

— Jackson Wang

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

— Michael Scott

You know, people who can draw get upset when people who can't start telling them what to do!

— Paul Laffoley

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

— James A. Garfield

When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.

— Keri Hilson

I don't want to just be an artist for one country, I want to produce for the world.

— Martin Garrix

“Our morality changes everything that holds truth - while the hate you paint with just recolours the lines of history.”

— Laura Chouette

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

— James Lafferty

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading,…

— Susan Rothenberg

I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying,…

— Laurie Simmons

In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming…

— Ellsworth Kelly

“Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a…

— Carl Henegan

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,…

— Gerhard Richter

The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all…

— Kerry James Marshall

My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or…

— Marianne Faithfull

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of…

— Barbara Hepworth

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

— Bobby Darin

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

— Marcel Duchamp

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

— Edward Hirsch

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

— Patti Smith

I don't have a beef with any female artist.

— Keri Hilson

“And trade is art, and art's philosophy, In Paris.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Cause I'm just a Artsy Loving Person!”

— Sienna Noel

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Art is not about something, Art is something

— Sarah Bernhardt

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

— Hunter S. Thompson

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

— Anonymous

Not every work of art connects with the audience.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.

— Raphael Soyer

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

— Jason Isbell

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

— Alfred Stieglitz