Artist Quotes · Page 314

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

— Marina Abramovic

Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul.

— Sergei Bongart

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by…

— Anonymous

There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer…

— Ken Danby

I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?

— John Ross Bowie

Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.

— Andrew McAleer

The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.

— Eric Maisel

If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.

— Tavi Gevinson

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be…

— Albert Camus

“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings,…

— Leo Tolstoy

I don't know what it was like in the '80s. I don't really even know what it was like in the '90s,…

— Wade Guyton

I think the new school is dope. Artists like Kid Cudi, The Cool Kids, Drake and Wale can come out of middle…

— SonReal

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a…

— Antonio Banderas

The world that I know and the world that I come from is from the arts, and my wife's an artist, and…

— Johnny Flynn

Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the…

— Michael Chabon

All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

— Edward Hopper

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

— Jerry Saltz

Like me, most of my fellow artists struggle within the confines of what is 'politically correct.'

— Bez

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

— Malcolm Cowley

Yeah, I feel as an artist, making a movie is the top of the food chain - that's the peak, the climax…

— Julia Fox

“Canvas, then you must define the Bitmap upon which drawing will actually be performed. The”

— Anonymous

“I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters,”

— Pete Hamill

The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.

— Daniel Levitin

Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made…

— Dries van Noten

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

— Marcel Duchamp

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men…

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is…

— Marcel Duchamp

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

— John W. Gardner

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

— Vik Muniz

What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.

— Eli Broad

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

— David Hockney

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

— Oscar Wilde

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

— Fela Kuti

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

— Luis Fonsi

If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.

— Ma Yansong

Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.

— George Clooney

First we draw what we see; then we draw what we know; finally we see what we know.

— Robert Beverly Hale