Artist Quotes · Page 302

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

— Gloria Steinem

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

— Wayne Thiebaud

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.

— Marilyn Manson

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

— Oscar Wilde

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

“I'm no pessimist. I don't loathe art because I couldn't live without devoting all my time to it. I love it as…

— Ingo F. Walther

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and…

— Ben Shahn

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative…

— W. Eugene Smith

One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who…

— Jennifer Stone

I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what…

— Chuck D

There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when applied to art, serves…

— Milton Resnick

The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest…

— William Blake

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

— James Whistler

“The art of the saints is the ability to draw good out of every situation, no matter how bitter or painful.”

— Marc Foley

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

— Moises Arias

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you…

— Rokia Traore

I love when an artist can stand by themselves and play their guitar and hold a crowd, but I also love bells…

— Kelsea Ballerini

I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement…

— Bryson Tiller

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to…

— Arthur Boyd

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

— Banksy

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects…

— Michael Ondaatje

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

— Joe Torre

I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is…

— Banks

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's…

— Ken Danby

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

— Jenova Chen

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

— Stevie Smith

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

— George Michael

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

— Aristotle

I've just grown as a person. I think that's what helped me grow as an artist.

— Fabolous

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

— Criss Jami

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

— Boots Riley

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

— Gunter Grass

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

— Aya Cash

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

— Franz Kline

My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we…

— Grace Gummer

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

— Omari Hardwick