Artist Quotes · Page 223

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

— Yoko Ono

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

— Nick Lowe

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

— Henry Ward Beecher

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

— Genesis P-Orridge

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

— George Edward Moore

“Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself?”

— Patti Smith

I don't like drawing characters facing right.

— Stephan Pastis

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your…

— Danny Huston

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

— Edvard Munch

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

— Walter Darby Bannard

It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.

— Michael Craig-Martin

I'm a huge fan of R. Kelly's. He's a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

— The Weeknd

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

— Andre Gide

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

— Shirin Neshat

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.

— Richard Eyre

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever…

— Laozi

“Anyone can have original style,” he countered. “And yet no one truly does. We’re influenced by those who came before us, beginning…

— Amy Tan

While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at…

— Anonymous

“If you have walked into a museum recently - whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from…

— Lemony Snicket

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the…

— Pablo Picasso

To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists,…

— Jim Woodring

Europe isn't something connected by the Euro. Every little dimension of Europe is so hugely different, and I think America is different…

— Patrick Wolf

“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know…

— William Knowlton Zinsser

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

— John Baldessari

This is one image. This is one moment. This is one statement. ARTPOP

— Lady Gaga

Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.

— Richelle Mead

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

— Theodore Roethke

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

— Lorde

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

— Helen Frankenthaler

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

— Jeff VanderMeer

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

— Eugene Delacroix

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

— Ad Reinhardt

My first influences were superhero artists.

— Scott McCloud

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

— Mark Rothko

When an artist stopped being a child, he would stop being an artist.

— Isamu Noguchi

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

— Douglas Adams

That's just me as an artist. I say what needs to be said.

— Amine

The job of the artist is to point at things.

— Miranda July