Artist Quotes · Page 275

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would…

— Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

— David Berlinski

I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

— Ian Somerhalder

As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with…

— Agrippina Vaganova

“Who knew that all you needed to pull in the rich dilettantes was an art production that ends all of reality?”

— Dennis Liggio

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

— Peter Greenaway

Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

— Michele Cassou

For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact…

— Isamu Noguchi

To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners,…

— Robert Sheaffer

Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical…

— Michael Gungor

You know, with the funeral home, that is my artistic outlet where I can paint and play with science and bodies and…

— Phaedra Parks

Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands…

— Martin Filler

There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority…

— David Bayles

I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself.…

— Taeyang

“Finally, every society develops a system of aesthetic standards that get manifested in everything from decorative art, music, and dance to the…

— David Livermore

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

— Ernest Hemingway

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

— Herbert Read

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense…

— Erykah Badu

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

— Ai Weiwei

I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

— Ann Mortifee

When people try questioning my artistry or what it is that I do, it's because it doesn't look like everybody else's art.

— The-Dream

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

— Ted Lange

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

— Steven Pressfield

I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you…

— Jessie Mueller

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter…

— Romare Bearden

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows…

— Joss Whedon

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

— Damien Hirst

Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.

— Robert Christgau

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring

— Julie Walters

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

— Eugenio Montale

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

— Igor Babailov

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

— Anton Chekhov

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

— Emile Zola

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual…

— Ben Shahn

The internet has really messed everyone up. It has its ups and downs, but for a music artist it's a killer.

— Ginuwine

A thousand painters can paint for a 1,000 years, but can't make a work of art as beautiful as you.

— Anonymous

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

— Paul Beatty

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

— Theodor Adorno