Artist Quotes · Page 271

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst,…

— Alden Ehrenreich

An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from…

— Aaron Rose

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

— Hillary Clinton

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

— Alan Bean

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

— Holland Cotter

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease…

— Naguib Mahfouz

If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy...

— Auguste Rodin

I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.

— Victor Vasarely

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my…

— David Bowie

I see myself as a very eclectic person and artist. I use all kinds of sources for the work as maybe some…

— Michael C. McMillen

Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to…

— Millard Sheets

It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you…

— Steve Kazee

I think what happened in the last 10 or 15 years in the art market is that all the players - and…

— Diego Cortez

I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I always have a plan, but it’s like the plan for a journey. Once you’re on the road, you change things. If…

— Ernesto Neto

There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can…

— Russell Page

I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.

— Alan Vega

“In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.”

— William Faulkner

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

— Aleksandar Hemon

if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

— Gertrude Atherton

The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal.

— Cornelia Parker

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

— John Barth

When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

— Henri Matisse

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move…

— John Baldessari

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

— Larry Gagosian

“It is possible that the artists are sane and the world they are painting is crazy.”

— William Zinsser

“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”

— Shannon L. Alder

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

— Lawrence Weiner

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

— Nicholas Meyer

The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art.

— Jane Heap

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

— Bill Watterson

In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.

— Georges Braque

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

— Claire Messud

I'd be more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I worked with.

— Shannen Doherty

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was…

— James De La Vega

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

— Anonymous

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

— Eddie Murphy

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

— Mary Gordon

I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever…

— Grace Gealey