Artist Quotes · Page 279

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

— Hannah Gadsby

“Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...”

— John Geddes

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the…

— Philip Schultz

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

— David Byrne

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

— Etta James

We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist,…

— Janelle Monae

The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be…

— Lloyd Alexander

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to…

— Ronald Reagan

... And we talk it out. Lately, I've had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss…

— Stan Lee

I would love to see more dialogue around the "responsibilities" of art consumers - how can audiences better financially support artists we…

— Vivek Shraya

The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't…

— Bill Vaughan

I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls…

— Anthony Bourdain

I was the only one to go to university, and the last thing my dad wanted was for me to be an…

— Sean Scully

Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.

— Mary Morrissey

I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.

— Mark Rothko

Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

— Questlove

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

— Cheryl Richardson

I hate working with artists who don't have something to say or when they have something that sounds cool but isn't really…

— Drumma Boy

My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist's website.

— Tom DeLonge

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are…

— Paul Schrader

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art…

— Margot Fonteyn

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist…

— Julie Doucet

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

— Michelangelo

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions.”

— Nick Hornby

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

— David Bowie

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

— El Greco

Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does.

— Patricia Bosworth

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

— Ad Reinhardt

As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.

— Ashkan Kooshanejad

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

— Marina Abramovic

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

— Rufino Tamayo

Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.

— Doug Liman

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

— Alain LeRoy Locke

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is…

— Jeanette Winterson

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.

— Larry Gagosian