Artist Quotes · Page 157

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art. ”

— E.M. Forster

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moralists have no place in an art gallery.

— Han Suyin

One of my favorite artists on Deviantart.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

— Paddy Chayefsky

What was that? An exhibition? You need emotional content...

— Huey Freeman

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

— Ruggero Leoncavallo

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

— Gerard Way

Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better…

— Shakira

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

— Marcel Duchamp

All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.

— Ernst Gombrich

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.

— Wendy Starland

My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.

— Kim Shattuck

In government they learned their lesson. They don't trust artists anymore. Now the money has to go through arts organizations. But, yeah,…

— Glenn Ligon

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more…

— Lee Ann Womack

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning…

— Jerry Saltz

“Adam'e arm reaching towards God. When I first stood in the Sistine Chapel I wondered if Michelangelo was aware of his blasphemy.…

— Anonymous

The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying.…

— Aphex Twin

Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought,…

— Guillaume Apollinaire

I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

[Johnny Depp] a wonderful artist, and such a talented person. I got along with him, splendidly. He's charming and wonderful to work…

— Amber Heard

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

— Robert Hughes

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

— Pauline Kael

The art of love is who you share it with.

— Neil Diamond

For artists to feel a real emotion to your partner is very important.

— Sergei Polunin

Art cannot save anybody from anything.

— Gilbert Sorrentino

Neymar is my key player. One of the world's best. He is also an artist.

— Thomas Tuchel

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

— Steven Pinker

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

— Peter Doig

I never, ever wanted to be a solo artist.

— Sisqo

Globalization is the next big artworld idea

— Noel Carroll

I remember when I was a kid, I went on the computer just to use Paint.

— Anonymous

Sometimes I don't think that I'm the most relatable female artist.

— Tones and I

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

— Jackson Pollock

Blank paper always symbolizes the anxiety of the painter.

— Claude Picasso

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

— Jacques Lipchitz

My mother worked as an artist until she was 96.

— Maye Musk