Artist Quotes · Page 304

Street art, unlike graffiti, adds to the environment and is a positive experience for the artist and community.

— Ben Eine

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could…

— Damien Hirst

I'm really about seeing people and art for what they are. Like, seeing people as humans and seeing art.

— Rich Brian

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,…

— John Gardner

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to…

— Rolf Harris

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

— David Gilmour

I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

— John David Washington

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for…

— Tyga

Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem…

— Barry McGee

So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in…

— Kehinde Wiley

Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of…

— Kim Anderson

I have long accepted that an art fair is not a perfectly curated museum show. Instead, it's more like a brightly lit…

— Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis

The thing is, if you're going to take the artistic path, you sort of have to make peace with the idea or…

— Lela Loren

I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion…

— Carter Ratcliff

It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and…

— Jamie Hewlett

There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or…

— David Bowie

“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Four Tet, a.k.a. Kieran Hebden, is a U.K. electronica artist whose diverse tastes have helped fuel a lengthy discography.

— Anthony Fantano

Even as an art teacher and someone very involved in the arts, I never knew what art therapy even was.

— Karen Pence

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

— Josh O'Connor

You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis.

— Dave Barry

“Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that…

— Lucien Carr

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are…

— Salvador Dali

As artists we need to stop making work only for gallery or museum walls, or the coffee tables of collectors.

— Zoe Buckman

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

— Ben Shahn

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

— Zhang Yimou

If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy…

— Cennino Cennini

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some…

— Thomas Merton

I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.

— Kehinde Wiley

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

— Vivienne Westwood

I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing…

— Brendan Gleeson

I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have…

— Morgan James

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

— Kenny Chesney

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

— Ezra Koenig

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a…

— Bernard Berenson

“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the…

— G.K. Chesterton

In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.

— Herbert Read

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

— Betty Edwards

I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as…

— Yukmouth