Artist Quotes · Page 141

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

— Crystal Gayle

“Artists often enslave their friends.”

— Anonymous

Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

— Isak Dinesen

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom,

— Ai Weiwei

“You can't go around making caricatures of the neighbors.”

— Harper Lee

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

— Michelangelo

When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

— Kate Micucci

“The supreme gift of an artist is the knowledge of when to stop.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The point of art is to shake people's minds and talk about real social issues.

— Ariana DeBose

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

— Victor Pinchuk

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

— Sarah Schulman

I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else.

— Billy Baldwin

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then…

— Kelsea Ballerini

“In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.”

— Edward St. Aubyn

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

— Henry Fuseli

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

— Liz Phair

When I first got into graffiti I thought it was going to change the world. But when, 20-years-later, it still hadn't, I…

— Ben Eine

As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent…

— Laurence Boldt

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I…

— James Thurber

The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

The hardest thing for an artist to do is to let go. I don't wanna be the dude - if you come…

— Heavy D

“Like a Zen master, she reduced to the essences: I do not need to walk around the Museum of Fine Arts; I…

— Claire Messud

I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every…

— Jeff Koons

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Where beauty ends is where the artist begins

— Gene Youngblood

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

— Erwin McManus

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

— Vincente Minnelli

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

— Charlie Rose

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.

— Marcel Duchamp

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

— Claude Monet

You become an artist to upset your family.

— Gunter Brus

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

— Luis Bunuel

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

— Mark Stevens

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

— Frank Bruno

In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought.

— Louis Kronenberger

“Go to museums; realize other things have history too.”

— Victoria Morgan

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

— Aristotle

“In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.”

— Philip Larkin

“she was completely whole and yet never fully complete”

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.

— Taylor Momsen