Artist Quotes · Page 253

Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in…

— Vic Mensa

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

— Robert Indiana

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

— Michelangelo

“End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island”

— C.B. Murphy

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

— Richard Schmid

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No”

— Oscar Wilde

Art should be perceived as subjectively as possible, and if anyone wants to see something in 'Belus' that I had not planned,…

— Varg Vikernes

“The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any…

— Arthur Phillips

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to…

— Chuck D

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer…

— Anonymous

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the…

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture…

— Edwidge Danticat

It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible…

— Dirk Benedict

The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing…

— Gerhard Richter

I'm just happy that in the whole framework of art imitates life, or maybe life should be imitating art, there is this…

— Jimmy Smits

“I think deep down I'm a painter, but my hands just don't know how to move to capture the beauty.”

— Wasabi Wheathins

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

— Sol LeWitt

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

— Sara Blecher

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

— T. S. Eliot

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

— Dave Hickey

As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking…

— Laura Dern

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

— Anonymous

As an artiste, you just continue doing your work and enjoy the process of working... and that's what I've always done.

— Deepti Naval

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

— Sol Hurok

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

— Nick Cave

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

— Timothy Spall

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.

— Henri Nouwen

Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

— Jean Rousset

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.

— Les Wexner

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

— Donald Trump

I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

— Joni Mitchell

“Artistry doesn’t always need an audience. Sometimes, it just needs a moment.”

— Steven Cuoco

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

— John Cage

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

— Mos Def

Being the first-ever non-Korean artist at YG, it feels as if I have much more responsibility.

— Lisa

I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.

— SonReal

“You are the artist of your recovery, and you get to create and sculpt it any way you like.”

— Brittany Burgunder