Artist Quotes · Page 193

“The function of art is to make people like life more than they do.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think it's important to widen my artistic repertoire.

— Son Ye-jin

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

— Abraham Lincoln

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

— Yoko Ono

An artist is no bigger than the size of his mind.

— Jack Shadbolt

Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.

— Anselm Kiefer

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

— Michael Jackson

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

— Ken Rockwell

“O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?”

— Andrei Platonov

Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever.

— Gary Busey

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but…

— Robert South

Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.

— Ovid

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

— Jamie Wyeth

An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.

— Michelangelo

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

— Milan Kundera

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you…

— Patrick Swayze

I mean, the type of art that I enjoy is art that - I enjoy a very broad spectrum, but I especially…

— Reggie Watts

I would never, ever start a fight with someone after a fight. I'm a martial artist from the beginning, since I was…

— Dillon Danis

I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to…

— Conor Oberst

The difference with a major label and independent is mainly resources. That's the difference that I feel sometimes where I as an…

— Goapele

What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the…

— Louis Althusser

When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does…

— Lewis Mumford

When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it.…

— Luc Tuymans

Young artists, I really love to see us winning.

— Rich the Kid

The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

— Sol LeWitt

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

— Richard Corliss

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

— Sol LeWitt

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

— Lawren Harris

My life is art. Its how I express God

— Lisa Bonet

Shame on those artists who aren't proud of their achievements.

— Suzi Quatro

Many of my sculptures take a long time to make.

— Charles Ray

Any artist who doesn't think he's the best should quit.

— Harold Town

“It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.”

— Steven Wright

In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.

— Jean Rostand

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

— John Henry Newman

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

— Paul Gauguin

In art, practice always comes before theory.

— Pablo Picasso

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

— Patti Smith

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

— Maynard James Keenan