Artist Quotes · Page 292

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

— Anonymous

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where…

— Romare Bearden

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

— Tracey Emin

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

— Carl Andre

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

— Stockard Channing

I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and…

— Stella Vine

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or…

— Erica Jong

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

— Theodore Robinson

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much…

— Keith Haring

Out of all the isms, movements and manifestos of the 20th century, it was the Dadaists who proved the most important -…

— Vic Reeves

The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level.…

— Arthur Ganson

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which…

— Marcus Aurelius

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but…

— Marina Abramovic

I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them…

— Eric Kandel

“ That's when I got it. The rough canvas. God paints our bodies over that, over our heart and soul. It's the…

— Joey W. Hill

'Modern Love' completes the EP as an intricate musical piece weaving in and out of complex rhythms. There is even a beatless…

— Subb-an

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my…

— Bil Keane

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

— Neil Welliver

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

— Edward Albee

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

— Bruno Mars

“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I think there's no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you…

— David Draiman

the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

— Edgar Degas

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

— Bette Davis

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

— Auguste Rodin

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his…

— Orson Welles

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

— Marina Abramovic

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the…

— Soulja Boy

It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.

— Natalia Makarova

“Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

— Jeff Dunham

How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

— Anne Clark

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

— Matthew Collings

That's what you want to do as an actor and as an artist: move an audience.

— Michael McElhatton

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.

— Zack Snyder

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

— Meher Baba

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

— Paul Klee

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

— James Surowiecki

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.

— Pierre Schaeffer