Artist Quotes · Page 265

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

— Georges Braque

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

— Anonymous

“The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not.”

— Tom Robbins

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

— Bernard Berenson

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good…

— Neil Gaiman

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little…

— Laurence Olivier

I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.

— Masi Oka

I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.

— Raheem DeVaughn

“Have you ever considered, bridgeman, that bad art does more for the world than good art? Artists spend more of their lives…

— Brandon Sanderson

I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really…

— Robert Barry

College had a great deal to do with my development as a person. I don't know if I'd be the artist I…

— J. Cole

“It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed…

— Susan Quinn

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong,…

— Studs Terkel

“The objective idea is all I ever cared about. Most of my ideas occur in verse... To be too subjective with what…

— Robert Frost

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I…

— Ziggy Marley

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.

— Blake Shelton

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it…

— Pablo Picasso

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

— Matt Smith

“Ripples of karmic events are best humbly done in an artistic, significant, unique karmic harvests without any forms of retaliation.”

— Angelica Hopes

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

— Tracey Moffatt

The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize…

— Maurice Blondel

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

— Anonymous

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

— Lynn Nottage

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I am an artist. An actor performs, whether it's in front of the camera or a live audience.

— Puneet Issar

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own…

— Mia Wasikowska

“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.”

— Pat Conroy

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

— Louise Wilder

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses…

— Francis Bacon

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

— Janet Fish

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

— Vincent Van Gogh

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

— Tori Amos

When I was in art school, I worried that being a painter seemed like it could be an elusive dream, and fashion…

— Cynthia Rowley

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that…

— Seth Godin

I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.

— Russell Simmons

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

— Nikos Kazantzakis