Artist Quotes · Page 224

“What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?”

— Gregory Maguire

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

— Robin G. Collingwood

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

— David Hockney

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

— Steve Guttenberg

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

— Anonymous

“Life is a canvas to her, and she’s painting it every day.”

— Shireen Ayache

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

— Kiyoshi Nakamura

“An actual artist, living right under her nose.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

— Octavio Paz

Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.

— Andy Serkis

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

— Wendell Berry

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

— Leo Tolstoy

For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.

— Kevin Parker

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

— Kathleen Kennedy

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

— George Santayana

Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.

— Sara Genn

I realize it's about the artists and about the fans. Those are the people who truly have the power. It's like politics,…

— David Banner

Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is…

— Ad Reinhardt

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without…

— Gerard Way

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The…

— Albert Camus

“Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, 'Let's not talk about that. That's man's stupidest…

— Richard Kostelanetz

“A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking…

— Christopher Bram

I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and…

— Paul Rusconi

I used to think I was going to be a painter.

— Sexyy Red

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others…

— Jessie J

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

— Zac Posen

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

— Michael Dirda

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

— John Waters

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music…

— Joel Plaskett

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

— H. L. Mencken

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

— PJ Harvey

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils…

— William Merritt Chase

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

— Yoko Ono

Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is…

— Yasumasa Morimura

“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.”

— Susan Sontag

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

— E. L. Doctorow

The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

— Henry Abbey

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

— Mike Leigh