Artist Quotes · Page 257

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

— Keith Carter

I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I…

— Michael Gungor

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

— Raymond Chandler

Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.

— Michael Arrington

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.

— Robert Wilson

I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.

— Ezra Furman

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

— Chip Kidd

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

— David Steindl-Rast

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that…

— Samuel R. Delany

Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,…

— Sallust

I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there…

— Alan Alda

Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday…

— Grant Wood

The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his…

— George Santayana

We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been…

— Ellen Dissanayake

A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more…

— Steven Knight

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint,…

— Nick Cave

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other…

— Clement Greenberg

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.

— Pierre Huyghe

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

— William Blake

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

— Ernest Hemingway

There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the…

— Milo Ventimiglia

I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.

— Claude Monet

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

— Julia Cameron

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

— Richard Avedon

“Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art.”

— Oscar Wilde

If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.

— Jimmy Iovine

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in…

— Denis Diderot

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

— John Frusciante

“I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.”

— Misha Glouberman

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

— Alex Katz

In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

— Scott Avett

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

— Bill Viola

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

— Jeff Koons

I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be…

— Adele

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

— Camille Pissarro

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period…

— Vincent Van Gogh

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

— Norman Maclean

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

— Walter J. Phillips

A man must be master of himself and master of his word to achieve the full realization of himself as an artist

— Robert Henri