Artist Quotes · Page 152

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

— Jose Clemente Orozco

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

— Marge Piercy

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

— Hans Haacke

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

— Margaret Cho

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

— Voltaire

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

— Julian Schnabel

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

— Marion Cotillard

Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture

— Jim Rohn

The first album is the prelude to the full story of Luke James. It establishes me as an artist you can look…

— Luke James

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

— Elia Kazan

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that…

— Brian Bird

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

— Tommy McCarthy

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

— John Ruskin

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

— John Kricfalusi

“She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.”

— Marcel Proust

I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that,…

— W. H. Auden

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman,…

— Edward de Bono

It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to…

— Randy Houser

To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the…

— John Dewey

I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and…

— Carine Roitfeld

All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what…

— Adam Granduciel

I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is…

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

— Josip Novakovich

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators…

— Igor Stravinsky

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

— Charles Bukowski

Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.

— Peter Marino

No great work of art is ever finished.

— Michelangelo

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

— Tim Burton

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

— Willa Cather

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

— Keith Haring

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

— Amanda Seyfried

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

— Joseph Campbell

Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints...

— Joni Mitchell

I don't think an artist does well without limitations.

— Hillman Curtis

So must the artist do in working at the nude.

— Antonio Canova

I don't think art is bound by language or country.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

“Art is not a mobocracy. It’s a republic.”

— Richard Powers

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

— George Santayana