Artist Quotes · Page 273

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society,

— Ai Weiwei

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

— Anthony Caro

I'm not a natural comedian, as an artist. I studied comedy growing up. I would watch Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Martin…

— Brandon T. Jackson

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

— Gustave Courbet

If you call yourself an artist, you won't get anything published. Call yourself a photojournalist, and then you can do whatever you…

— Robert Capa

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

— Joan Miro

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

— Raymond Pettibon

I think a problem for most people in a fiduciary capacity is to eliminate self and greed and all those things so…

— Shep Gordon

I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus…

— LIZ

You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of…

— KRS-One

Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between…

— Claude Monet

Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it…

— Candace Bushnell

So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff -…

— Allison Mackie

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate.…

— John Ortberg

There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you…

— Philip Guston

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

— Peter Schjeldahl

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

— Artie Shaw

I know there are people who are praying for my downfall, but they're going to be like, 'Wow, Xan's actually an artist.'

— Lil Xan

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

— Mitski

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

— Chuck Close

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then…

— Edwin Starr

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

— Fernando Pessoa

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way., I think seeing a picture is one thing and…

— Jasper Johns

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

— John F. Kennedy

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

— Chris Marker

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

— Roy DeCarava

If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave…

— Edouard Manet

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

— Stacy Martin

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Andy Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

— Andy Cohen

Art may imitate wild nature; less often does it dare to place itself in the midst of it, and when it does,…

— John Hart

I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

— Ashton Kutcher

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

— Jackson Pollock

“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”

— Ingo Walther

People talk about the pop part - they don't talk about me being an independent artist. I made it look easy, that's…

— Dizzee Rascal

“New forms of the artistic register are one of the infallible signs of an authentic moment.”

— Christopher Hitchens

One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.

— Gino Severini

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

— Corita Kent

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded…

— Theodor Adorno