Artist Quotes · Page 242

I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than…

— William Hogarth

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

— D. H. Lawrence

It's the only pawnshop I know that's got real Picassos hanging on the wall. I have Salvador Dalis on the wall. I…

— Rick Harrison

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— Ashwanart

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't…

— Miles Davis

“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is…

— Marcel Proust

Life is like a canvas. It begins blank and every day is like another brush stroke.

— Babloo

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in…

— Patti Smith

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would…

— Wyndham Lewis

At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the…

— Millie Bobby Brown

“You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card…

— Donna Tartt

The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of…

— Camille Pissarro

It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and…

— Paul Allen

I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see…

— Jerry Saltz

Unfortunately, you don't get artist development anymore. Record companies have become a huge corporate thing. It used to be you'd meet someone…

— David Vanian

Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but…

— Sigfried Giedion

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but…

— Greg Sestero

“Art has one purpose, that is to leave you changed. Love has one purpose, that is to create art.”

— Julieanne O'Connor

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

— Alberto Giacometti

I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.

— Cheryl Rainfield

Bhaskar Hazarika makes a strong debut with 'Kothanodi', revisiting stories he read as a kid, painted beautifully with mature strokes.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

— Ben Lerner

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.

— Yvette Mimieux

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I…

— Jo Stafford

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

— Harold Rosenberg

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

— William Wordsworth

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

— Robert Barry

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

— Grace Hartigan

With Priyadarshan, he is extremely strict but lets me do what I want. You have that kind of freedom as an artiste.

— Sameera Reddy

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

— John Edgar Park

I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.

— Joe Lycett

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

— Kerry Washington

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

— Auguste Rodin

We must link Azamgarh to art and culture and not with terrorism and crime.

— Yogi Adityanath

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

— Frank Capra

“For an artist, there's nothing better than having the opportunity to create a world that doesn't- but could- exist.”

— Christophe Lautrette

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

— Leo Tolstoy