Artist Quotes · Page 235

Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

— Don Herold

Jalen Hurts is a top-notch quarterback, decision-maker, leader, passer, escape artist.

— Mike Tomlin

“It is the Master of Self who is the masterpiece; the life lived is the canvas that reveals the Master's great works.”

— Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art,…

— Claes Oldenburg

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

— Katherine Sophie Dreier

The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

— Helen Vendler

I have finally completed painting our bedroom! So many walls, so much ceiling! Now eating pizza and watching 'The Big Lebowski'. Delightful.

— Alison Pill

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what…

— Robert Hass

I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of…

— Betty Churcher

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think…

— Chuck Close

I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling…

— K. Flay

For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no…

— Damien Hirst

I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the…

— Clint Eastwood

Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the…

— Jack White

“I am the contrast. I am forever the crack in the window that lets the winter in. I am forever the moment…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a…

— Cory Arcangel

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

— William Blake

You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.

— Lena Waithe

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.

— Martin Heidegger

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

— Peter Weiss

That's kind of the artist I like to be, transparent, honest. I think that's what I'm like in real life.

— Raye

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I'm an artist, I paint on a smile. I'm an actress, I hold back the tears. I'm a doctor, trying to fix…

— Anonymous

“The purpose of art is to elevate the spirit or to pay a surgeon’s bill. Or both. It can help a person…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try…

— Olivia d'Abo

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.

— Sinead O'Connor

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

— Toni Morrison

I was a very insecure, self-conscious kid, and as an artist even more so.

— Eugene Lee Yang

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

— Tawfiq al-Hakim

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

— Jean Dubuffet

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man…

— Aleister Crowley

Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.

— David Ruffin

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

— Herb Alpert

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a…

— Frank Auerbach

The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

— Alex Grey

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

— James Frey

I don't even know what my artist name would be. Would it be Logan Paul? Would it just be Logan? I don't…

— Logan Paul

I don't know, I really try not to pay attention to comparisons, 'cause I'm my own artist. I try to build my…

— Cordae

I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done…

— Milla Jovovich

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

— Ned Rorem