Artist Quotes · Page 298

I could have $15 million in the bank right now, and that doesn't mean I'd stop trying to be a better artist.…

— Nav

“The terrible things that happen to us,” Tessa said slowly. “What we do with them...I think that’s what makes us artists.”

— Helen Maryles Shankman

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

— Edgar Degas

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

— Ayi Kwei Armah

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

— William James

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

— Jim Morrison

I always liked the idea that you can put something in you onto a canvas or a piece of paper and have…

— El-P

I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing…

— Konrad Lorenz

Without a doubt, because now in the music business talent and hard work isn't enough. There is just a lot of luck…

— Jason C. Miller

Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity,…

— Anonymous

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish…

— Diana Gabaldon

It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on…

— Walead Beshty

There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are…

— Michael Craig-Martin

“We look at a picture throughout our lives, we listen to a piece of music throughout our lives, we read a book…

— Arthur Henry King

That's why I try to stay away from the big-name producers, so I can prove that it's not about the producer, it's…

— Sisqo

To me, the making of art and experiences around that are the biggest part to me.

— Alison Sudol

“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it…

— Pierre Berge

“And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?”

— Donna Tartt

“After all, a love of art is a fine thing for a young boy, but art is long—and life can be pretty…

— Vincent Price

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

— Susan Sontag

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory…

— Leonard Bernstein

“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]”

— Miles J. Unger

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

— Agnes Denes

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

“When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to…

— Ingo F. Walther

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

— Francis Bacon

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, 'Look at my awesome work.'

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Art is supposed to change and grow and accord with the times. It seems perfect to me that we have a period…

— Claudia Jessie

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

— John Constable

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

— Steven Pressfield

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

— Brett Weston

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…

— Roger Scruton

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you…

— Nick Bantock

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

— John Feldmann

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

— Truman Capote