Artist Quotes · Page 198

“Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

— Lusia Strus

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

— Eric Hoffer

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

— Criss Jami

You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.

— Jason Momoa

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.

— Ayn Rand

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

— Edgar Degas

One genius has made many clever artists.

— Martial

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

— George Michael

Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

— Bridget Riley

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

— Horace

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

— Anne Bogart

Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.

— Genco Gulan

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

— Loren Eiseley

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

— David Crabb

The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but…

— Claude Monet

In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes,…

— Jonathan Groff

If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres,…

— Yukio Mishima

I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art…

— Eric Kandel

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural…

— Edgard Varese

A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive,…

— Budd Hopkins

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were…

— Norman Rockwell

Gulzarbhai is a very special artist.

— Asha Bhosle

I have to write. I have to be an artist.

— Louise Erdrich

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.

— Tite Kubo

“At times such as this, it becomes more important for art to survive.”

— Jennifer Niven

I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.

— Virgil Abloh

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

— Irving Stone

Sydney is full of the craziest and most talented artists of all kinds.

— Keiynan Lonsdale

All art is at once surface and symbol.

— Oscar Wilde

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

— Grace Hartigan

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

— Yoko Ono

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

— Hans Hofmann

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

— T. S. Eliot

There is no depth to education without art.

— Amiri Baraka

I do one painting per day, I've always done that.

— Vic Reeves

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

— Henri Rousseau

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

— Anonymous