Artist Quotes · Page 234

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

— J. D. Salinger

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

— Bertolt Brecht

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

— Agnes de Mille

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

— Chinua Achebe

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.

— Dogen

Over the years, El Perro del Mar became this artist that, every record that came out, I just loved it.

— Fred Armisen

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

— John F. Kennedy

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I…

— John Lithgow

It's easy to get into habitual ways of drawing things and I'm as much guilty of this as anyone else - after…

— Bryan Talbot

I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during…

— Peter Capaldi

But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself,…

— Jeff Vespa

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete…

— Agnes Martin

I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the…

— Eva Hesse

“There's a hurried intensity in the strokes--you can see where he scratched into the wet paint with the end of the brush.…

— Nicole Krauss

It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This…

— Ray Charles

I think the best way I've grown as an artist period, not just in relation to creating music, is having a lot…

— Jinkx Monsoon

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to…

— Brad Paisley

When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.

— Lil' Kim

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

— Val Kilmer

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

— Oscar Wilde

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could…

— Lady Bird Johnson

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

— Anthony Quinn

The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.

— Artur Schnabel

The only way you can make change is by moving someone, making them laugh, making them cry. But art has to be…

— Sacha Dhawan

“A few grass mats, some cave drawings, the heads of my enemies mounted on the wall ... it could be quite pleasant.”

— Greg Farshtey

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

— Anish Kapoor

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check.…

— Keariene Muizz

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

— Gloria Steinem

Everyone liked me when I went up on the stage at a talent search in elementary school, and that's when I decided…

— J-Hope

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

— Kurt Schwitters

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

— Michel de Montaigne

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

— Lucian Freud

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

— Sylvia Kristel

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

— Trey Anastasio

The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the…

— Jim Lee

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without…

— Russell Edson