Artist Quotes · Page 256

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

— Wes Nisker

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.

— Robert Zoellick

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

— William Morris

As we honor and take time to appreciate the arts we expand the beauty and culture of society.

— Senoraroy

“After all is said and done, it is the exhibition that should be well-hung.”

— n+1

Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.

— JR

“Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective.”

— Vera Nazarian

“The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in…

— Raymond Queneau

I notice a lot of younger artists have difficulty telling stories. They might have short stories where they express themselves well, but…

— Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny.…

— Piet Mondrian

I've never heard of any one single artist being the subject in an ongoing series of radio programs for decades. Bearing this…

— Frank Sinatra, Jr

“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a…

— Lawrence Durrell

All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as…

— Alister MacKenzie

“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn’t.” —Craig Damrauer The”

— Austin Kleon

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it…

— Leo Steinberg

Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at…

— Jeff Ament

People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in…

— Rod McKuen

I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors.

— Ben Eine

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not…

— Frank Gehry

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

— Clement Greenberg

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

— Jasper Johns

It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false…

— Wassily Kandinsky

“There is nothing magical about the flip of the calendar, but it represents a clean break, a new hope, and a blank…

— Jason Soroski

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

— John Berger

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

— Jerry Saltz

My friend was trying to draw me,at the end she failed at it,but I still like it.Comment if you like it too.

— Anonymous

Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always…

— Muriel Rukeyser

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like…

— David Lynch

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

— Adolph Gottlieb

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

— Oscar Wilde

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

— Simone Weil

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience…

— John Banville

I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad.

— Rajkumar Hirani

I'm the solo artist drummer that I wanted as a kid. I want to be what I never saw growing up.

— G Flip

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a…

— La'Porsha Renae