Artist Quotes · Page 282

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.

— Kojiro Tomita

“The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host.”

— Gerard de Marigny

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

— Marcel Proust

Art has a power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

— Sam

I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.

— Dustin Yellin

“Nous connaîtrions-nous seulement un peu nous-mêmes, sans les arts? Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts? ”

— Gabrielle Roy

I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their…

— Charles Saatchi

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

One of the reasons I work serially, but also one of the reasons that I try to claim space in painting, is…

— Cynthia Daignault

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art…

— Micah Perks

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest,…

— Barbara Kruger

'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and…

— Dave Douglas

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled…

— Peter Wright

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known -…

— Frank Stella

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being…

— Ernest Hemingway

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among…

— Lawrence Durrell

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

— Glen Duncan

I feel people can relate to the struggling artist a little more sometimes than the big million-dollar country stars.

— Sam Palladio

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

— Larry McMurtry

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

— Anonymous

Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

— Annie Ilonzeh

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

— Ben Shneiderman

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

— Charles Baudelaire

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it…

— Lucian Freud

My caveman. It was going to be Abe Lincoln, but, that didn't work out. XD

— Christopher Timmerman

“The soul of an artist is a tortured one, forever capturing their version of reality.”

— Belinda Taylor

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

— Cate Blanchett

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

— Albrecht Durer

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just…

— George A. Sheehan

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking…

— Serj Tankian

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's…

— Frank Gehry

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

— Rex Brandt

“Civilization is built by the artist, by the literary exponent, by the ability to generate beauty and music and new methods of…

— Irshad Manji

In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.

— William Henry Jackson

“...for, in [William] Morris's words, 'a work of utility might also be a work of art, if we cared to make it…

— Ewan Clayton

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you…

— iO Tillett Wright

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

— Isaac Mizrahi

I'm a martial artist and I want to treat the UFC and MMA as martial arts.

— Renato Moicano

I like striking and while I'm a mixed martial artist, striking is what I like to do.

— Brad Tavares

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

— Philip Guston