Artist Quotes · Page 276

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

— Charley Pride

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

— Wendy Beckett

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

— David Lee

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

— Philip Kitcher

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

— Massimiliano Gioni

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

— Pablo Picasso

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

— Henri Matisse

Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close…

— Ellsworth Kelly

If an artist knows you have respect for their talent - which I have to feel to my core, to sign them…

— Clive Davis

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem…

— Maya Angelou

[Being in the States] is almost like being on a holiday. It's kind of annoying because everyone's like "Oh, you're so obsessed…

— Marina and the Diamonds

“The light of artistic creation is also blinding. The artist can’t see the suffering he causes to those around him. And the’ll…

— Ian McEwan

Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without…

— Georg Baselitz

“Farber says (in my recollection, anyway) the European (or classical) art, including film, is culturally assumed to be a monumental slab. It's…

— William Gibson

“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying…

— Willa Cather

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

— Nell Irvin Painter

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

— Eli Broad

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in…

— E. M. Forster

I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.

— Ryan Tedder

“Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.”

— Peter Adolphsen

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

— Henri Matisse

I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on…

— Kalup Linzy

Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I…

— Sylvia Plath

I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance.

— Matt Bomer

The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Does anyone really believe a four-year degree is what separates an ethical person from a con artist?

— Rich Paul

It is true that independent music is risky, but the amount of freedom of expression it provides an artist overpowers this risk.

— Ankit Tiwari

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

— Vincent Van Gogh

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

— David Byrne

“It's dark times like these that present us the canvas where we paint our own greatness.”

— Richard Paul Evans

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

— Joseph Kosuth

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons…

— Albert C. Barnes

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

— William Ernest Henley

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

— Hayao Miyazaki

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

— Adrienne Rich

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

— Kafu Nagai

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

— Jack Kerouac