Artist Quotes · Page 246

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

— Elliot W. Eisner

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

— Kenneth Noland

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

— Chinua Achebe

“Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed." -Unknown”

— Caddy Rowland

Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.

— Oliver $

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“You'll never end up in a museum if you spend your whole life painting fences.”

— Connor Chalfant

Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

— Joyce Carol Oates

It's really hard to be an artist and put out records and put your heart out there. It's such a gamble, and…

— Diane Birch

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This…

— Steve Vai

I've experienced some really very obvious, direct homophobia - when I was still trying to be an artist, behind the scenes, being…

— Justin Tranter

“I needed to take her to a concert, or maybe invite her out to go stencil street art in the middle of…

— Jarod Kintz

We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back…

— Ernest Becker

'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some…

— Damien Hirst

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that…

— Constantin Stanislavski

The artist-muse relationship is romantic and passionate, and complex, and I would imagine that would be a hard relationship to have if…

— Kate Bosworth

Being able to use art and music not just to communicate, but to have a positive effect on people, that's significant to…

— Stephen Schwartz

“You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and…

— David Shrigley

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

— David Rockefeller

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

— Chuck Close

The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

— Thomas Koerfer

It just takes that one artist to take the chance to create the next wave of popular music.

— Sky Blu

Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.

— Li Shan

At a certain point, I had so much artwork that I decided to respect the art and present them in a nice…

— Iliza Shlesinger

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

— John Updike

It shouldn't be that people think the National Gallery is just for middle-class white people.

— Munira Mirza

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also…

— Faith Ringgold

“when i am drawing i can convice myself that i am a good person, that i am worth something”

— Joanna Kenrick

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another…

— Matthew Slotover

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.

— Woody Allen

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

— John Dewey

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

— Stephen Wright

I'm going back to the border. Baby where I'm better known because you haven't done nothing baby but draw the good man…

— BB King

Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.

— Jacob Weisberg

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.

— Colman Domingo

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

— Dan Brown

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

— Pankaj Tripathi

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All…

— Stephen King