Artist Quotes · Page 290

Through art, through people working together and building relationships and trust, people can overcome the problems of politics.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

— Carrie Coon

All children are artists,the problem is how to remain and artist as they grow up

— Pablo Picasso

I can't tell you how scary it can be for an artist to be in a space where they don't know where…

— Rohit Saraf

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was…

— Ernest Hemingway

I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good…

— Alia Shawkat

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't,…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

— Joseph Brodsky

I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the…

— Robert Indiana

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years.…

— Jimmy Carter

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really -…

— Julia Cameron

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to…

— Edwyn Collins

There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas.…

— Erin Morgenstern

Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own…

— Anonymous

I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as…

— Kanye West

Brian Eno records and music got me through. It made me feel like there were other people out there who had the…

— Greg Mottola

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

— C.D. Wright

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no…

— Oscar Wilde

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

— Allan Kaprow

I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

— Charles Tart

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

— Jeffrey Smart

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

— Courtney Barnett

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

— Georges Vantongerloo

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

— Agatha Christie

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young…

— Hozier

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

— Edward Abbey

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

— Edouard Manet

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and…

— Jeff Koons

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

— Adam Gopnik

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the…

— Robert Wilson

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

— Adam West

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

— Anthony Braxton

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to…

— Willa Cather

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

— Claire Bloom

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

— Jackson Pollock

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

— Barnett Newman

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

— Richard Armitage