Artist Quotes · Page 277

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

— Joseph Plaskett

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of…

— Anish Kapoor

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curve-ball.

— Anonymous

“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.”

— Amit Kalantri

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

— Jessica Sanchez

What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and…

— Cliff Chiang

Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives.

— Abbi Jacobson

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by…

— Henri Matisse

What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity…

— Pierre Bonnard

It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case…

— Cat Stevens

I know artists that have tried for a long time in the Christian industry and then they were on a TV show…

— Anthony Evans

“I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse.…

— Robert Henri

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much.…

— Tom Robbins

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the…

— Glenn Frey

Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent…

— Eric Fischl

“The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the…

— Fernando Pessoa

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

— Joseph Campbell

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

— Willem de Kooning

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

— Allen Sapp

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

— Rick Ross

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

— Anonymous

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

— John Marin

“what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art”

— Vladimir Nabokov

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

— Robert Henri

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

— Mary Quant

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this…

— Barry McGee

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

— J. M. W. Turner

I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'

— Ronan Keating

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.…

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

— Joseph Beuys

“It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.”

— Elizabeth Berg

I take pride in the fact that I was the first Hispanic artist to really crack the English market.

— Jose Feliciano

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have…

— Gretchen Wilson

Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic.

— JD Era

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

— Miley Cyrus

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

— Kenneth Koch

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

— Nick Bantock