Artist Quotes · Page 310

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

— David Cronenberg

It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

— James Bay

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

— Masaaki Hatsumi

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

— Alexander Calder

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

— Joseph Conrad

To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English…

— Liu Dan

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Beyonce's the kind of artist where you're not gonna see it till it's right.

— Ne-Yo

The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo aspect of being an…

— John McEnroe

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work…

— Edward Steichen

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure…

— Andre Malraux

It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to…

— Derek R. Audette

I remember being backstage in my full look and the make-up artist said to me: ‘Did you hear? Kendall Jenner is here.’…

— Kendall Jenner

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest…

— Salman Rushdie

Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an…

— Robert Hughes

Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems…

— George Sand

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

— Vaclav Havel

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

— Marcel Duchamp

“The universe has been painting its creations with many of the same brushes.” “Do”

— Nathan Van Coops

I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

— Nathan Sawaya

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

— Janina Gavankar

Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done…

— Richard Prince

It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that.

— Kenny G

“You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.”

— Amit Kalantri

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

— Russell Lynes

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

— Jackson Pollock

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“As with any artist,I see my first piece of blank writing paper as the canvas on which I will create my next…

— Ernest Grant

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

— El Greco

To have a simultaneous global audience as an artist is more than you could ever hope for.

— Dee Rees

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

— Hans Hofmann

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

— Emily Carr

I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.

— Aaron Rose

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

— Richard Thompson

I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.

— Glenn Ligon

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

— Marcel Duchamp

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

— Odilon Redon

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little…

— John Banville