Artist Quotes · Page 285

I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time,…

— LeCrae

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

— Joni Mitchell

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

— Henry Miller

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

— Jamake Highwater

“That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.”

— Orson Scott Card

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push…

— Eric Balfour

I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider.…

— Jamila Woods

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

— Jack Kroll

Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come…

— Michael Milken

I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it…

— Gerhard Richter

Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I…

— Tea Leoni

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and…

— Linda Evangelista

I do make some drawings for wall pieces. I do work out some ideas for large-scale wall pieces where I have to…

— Robert Barry

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it…

— Robert Beverly Hale

I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the…

— Anonymous

The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I showed the world my art, my heart, I wasn't just an actress. I was actually an artist. And that was…

— Heart Evangelista

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

— Hans Rookmaaker

In my generation, we sort of let the art speak for itself. We don't disclose our personal private lives.

— Alyson Stoner

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.

— Rebecca Horn

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that…

— Robert Rauschenberg

If being two-faced is an art form, I couldn't count how many fucking artists I'd know.

— Anonymous

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

— Anonymous

art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep…

— Shelley Winters

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

— Dianne Reeves

The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show…

— Mary Gauthier

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

— Adrienne Rich

“Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.”

— James Rozoff

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

— Aristotle

Working with my friend Sir Antony Sher is truly one of the highlights of my career as an artist.

— John Kani

Rozay is an artist himself so he understands the importance of being true to your work.

— Omarion

You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that's not becoming to you as an artist, that's your fault.

— Marina and the Diamonds

When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.

— Alice Neel

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

— Norman Rockwell

“The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.”

— Karel Teige

You can only be the great artist for so long - come out with effort after effort that garners all this praise.

— Black Thought

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

— Anonymous

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

— Lawren Harris