Artist Quotes · Page 164

ART DOESNT HAVE TO BE PRETTY IT HAS TO HAVE A MEANING

— DUANE HANSON

“I think a lot of art is trying to make someone love you.”

— Keaton Henson

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

— Edward Hopper

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

— Andre Malraux

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

— Isaac Hanson

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

— William Blake

The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it.

— The Weeknd

In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.

— Anonymous

The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more…

— Henri Rousseau

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

— Keariene Muizz

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

— Robert Rauschenberg

The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.

— Gutzon Borglum

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

— Robert Motherwell

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

— Yoko Ono

I love Narcy, he's such a good artist. I know him personally, he's a friend. He's of my generation - he puts…

— Ramy Youssef

“For some young artists, it can take a bit of time to discover which tools (which medium, or genre, or career pathway)…

— Terri Windling

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly…

— Marina and the Diamonds

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable…

— Henri Bergson

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of…

— Thomas Huxley

I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come…

— Stan Lee

There are some people who don't believe in entertainment if you're a Christian artist. But I think it's a good thing for…

— Shonlock

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the…

— Medardo Rosso

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

— Gore Vidal

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember the time we used to get on the computer just for paint?

— Anonymous

Your painting is a measure of your mind.

— Millard Sheets

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

— Robert Musil

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

— Niklas Luhmann

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

— Douglas Davis

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

— Anonymous

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

— Paul Gauguin

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

— Herbert Read

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

— Laurence Gartel

I always knew I was an artist, and even more importantly, a star.

— Van Hunt

“From now on, consider yourself a con artist.”

— Carsten Jensen

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

— Abderrahmane Sissako

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

— Sigfried Giedion