Artist Quotes · Page 287

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same…

— Toni Morrison

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

— William Shakespeare

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

— Stefan Sagmeister

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

— Raekwon

Everyone sort of has that voice of self-doubt in their head, but as an artist, you relinquish your right to have that…

— Ryan McCartan

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

— Naomi Watts

I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.

— Mary GrandPre

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle…

— Caspar David Friedrich

“What Is Art?150 I’m beginning to think that maybe I’m exceedingly vulgar — and the funny thing about it is — I…

— Sarah Greenough

The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see.…

— Rudolf Arnheim

I felt really lucky in that I've gotten to know some of my favorite artists; I get to tell them how important…

— Finneas

You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings'…

— Raymond Pettibon

Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that…

— Vanna Bonta

“Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?”

— Sara Baume

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it…

— Dante Alighieri

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

— Cass McCombs

“Everything here is a small offense and not of value as art or confession. It is not a whim. It is an…

— Patti Smith

To be a gifted artist, you have to be able to interpret in a certain way.

— Mirella Freni

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I think the more you know people and the more you get to know artists, the better you can collaborate.

— Ludwig Goransson

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it...

— Harold Rosenberg

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

— Carl Andre

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

— Antonio Gaudi

I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.

— Charli XCX

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I don't think that a lot of people understand the difference between therapeutic art and art therapy.

— Karen Pence

You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

— Amanda Palmer

I would say that most serious artists have a pretty complete idea of what they're going to do before they do it.

— Diego Cortez

Bruno Mars. He is my favourite artist, and I always look forward to see him perform live.

— Guru Randhawa

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

— Pablo Picasso

One thing I can say about pursuing a career in the arts is, it is an adventure - a beautiful, intimidating, and…

— Kiana Madeira

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

— Adriana Trigiani

Art can be interpreted in various ways and having the freedom to do that is liberating as a creator and a viewer.

— Asim Chaudhry

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

— Steven Van Zandt

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

— Duke Ellington

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was…

— Tom Shadyac