Artist Quotes · Page 142

perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.

— Anais Nin

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

— Nicky Oppenheimer

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

— Sergei Eisenstein

Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art...

— Joel Houston

Fans are hungry for original artwork.

— George Perez

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

— Stephen Rea

Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.

— John Hickenlooper

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I am not a great artist like Maradona was with regards to on-the-field matters.

— Kaka

I don't like permanency. I just like to slip and slide, and in identity, I think that's a very feminine artist's point…

— Roisin Murphy

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.

— Kenny Chesney

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

— Dianne Reeves

We have to remind people how important arts are. People just don't see it.

— Steven Michael Quezada

Art fairs bring attention to up and coming artists and some amazing new works. They are a way to connect everyone with…

— Paul Allen

Every show I've done, I've just wanted to understand something of this weird life that I woke up in. I've never woken…

— Damian Loeb

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the…

— George Grosz

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose…

— Neil MacGregor

I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that's because, especially if you're in the States, if you're black…

— Kelis

You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet…

— Arlo Guthrie

I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations…

— Michael C. McMillen

I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church.…

— Jeff Koons

It is hard to separate the art from the artist.

— Juice Wrld

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

— Barbara Hepworth

Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.

— Jonathan Lethem

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

— Paul Valery

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.

— Ai Weiwei

Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.

— Bente Borsum

All artists are equal when they are themselves.

— Federico Fellini

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

— Charles Bukowski

I'm a martial artist, not a fighter.

— Uriah Hall

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

— Meredith Baxter

“Art is the unique work of a human being, work that touches another.”

— Seth Godin

Art arises from the interaction of the mind and the heart.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

— Bill Cosby

A work of art is a renewable source of energy.

— Brice Marden

I'm nothing else but an artist, I'm sure, and delighted to be.

— Marcel Duchamp

A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom.

— Claudia Jones