Artist Quotes · Page 153

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

— Brice Marden

In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.

— E. B. Lewis

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

The artist must be ecstatic about something.

— Ted Shawn

There is no perfect painting and there is no perfect solution.

— Elliott Hundley

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

— Henri Matisse

The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.

— Jules Breton

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

— LeCrae

My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I…

— Octavia Spencer

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

— Rajneesh

“Velia, without pausing in her artwork, said, “Can’t trick nobody not looking to be tricked.”

— Chance Maree

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

— Christie Brinkley

Life is beautiful when you accept to paint it with color of different motivation. To make dreams come true.

— Toni Concept

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

— Yoko Ono

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school,

— Christian Louboutin

A lot of people, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry and a lot of people have written for other people, and of course…

— Bonnie McKee

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on…

— Alfred North Whitehead

No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs…

— Jade Bird

Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do…

— Rachael Price

Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you…

— Wu Guanzhong

Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born,…

— Hans Hofmann

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live…

— Bob Dylan

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to…

— Leonard Shlain

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

— Bruce Lee

“Anywhere art visits turns into a gorgeous place!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

— Steve Sabol

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

— Michael Ventura

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

— Haruki Murakami

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

— Joyce Cary

Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash.

— Richard Roeper

I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

— Ridley Scott

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall

— Cyril Connolly

“Whatever in a work of art is not used, is doing harm.”

— C.S. Lewis

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

— Franz Liszt

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

— Al Jourgensen

“The art in question is much more about open communications.”

— Pearl Zhu

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— Pat Morita

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

— Auguste Rodin

“Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece.”

— William S. Burroughs