Artist Quotes · Page 262

“No wonder Van Gogh cut his ear off, I thought; there’s nothing else to do in a place like this but cut…

— Philip Kerr

As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to…

— Miranda July

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

— Robert Henri

“What are ideals but an admission that life is worthless? What is art but the negation of life?”

— Fernando Pessoa

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

— Rebecca West

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing…

— Franz Kafka

The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.

— Josef Albers

I really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics.

— Amber Rose

There was a time in my career when I felt like I wasn't being true to myself. I was being moulded into…

— Madison Beer

Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good…

— India.Arie

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun…

— James Madison

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of…

— C. S. Lewis

Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things.…

— Storm Jameson

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from…

— Olivia Williams

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of…

— Zadie Smith

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and…

— Joseph Addison

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a…

— Douglas Adams

“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

I don't know what I would have been doing if I was not in YG, but I think I would be doing…

— G-Dragon

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of…

— Keorapetse Kgositsile

I no longer enjoy drawing people's pets. I just want to draw what I want to draw and have people not tell…

— Lisa Hanawalt

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

— George Lucas

Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.

— Walter Darby Bannard

My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist.

— Daniel Caesar

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad…

— Paul Conrad

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

— George Jean Nathan

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

— Terence McKenna

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

— Burton Silverman

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

— Thomas Merton

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

— George Carlin

“(How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois”

— Jan Greenberg

I'm like a painter who has had his different periods: jazz, soul, pop, psychedelia, varietes.

— Demis Roussos

So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.

— Edward Hopper

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

— Titian

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

— Harry Belafonte

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

— Ruth Benedict

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else

— Seth Godin

If you look at sculptures from hundreds of years ago, everyone's naked. It's not a bad thing.

— Gigi Hadid

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.

— Betty Dodson

I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a…

— Philip Taaffe