Artist Quotes · Page 316

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

— Roselee Goldberg

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius…

— Kelsey Grammer

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

— Tom Wolfe

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“good art illustrates anything at all, it’s likely to be a story you didn’t even know needed telling.”

— David Salle

You can't be an artist while you're producing, because you'll be over-critiquing the producer part.

— Valee

I have respect for the sport so I will contribute to the sport by encouraging artists .

— Ab-Soul

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

— Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about…

— John Darnielle

“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the…

— Mircea Eliade

A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position…

— Chuck D

Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one…

— Surya Das

Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm.…

— Louise Bourgeois

Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me…

— Georg Baselitz

I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and…

— Walter Kirn

When I was younger I was very opinionated about art. And then, I realized that I kind of recognized this pattern where…

— Joe Bradley

The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

— Prince Charles

For you Cody(: (p.s. I wanted to show you my friend's artwork on my pencil case bahah!)

— Heatherr

So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it.

— David Douglas Duncan

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

— Peter Porter

I've had so many conversations with new artists trying to figure out their careers.

— Scott Borchetta

I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.

— Bryan Greenberg

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre…

— Edith Evans

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

— Frances Stark

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money…

— Lady Gaga

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

— Elizabeth Neel

I am an artist who is ready to grab interesting roles that comes my way.

— Vijay Sethupathi

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger

“I wish I could paint like Raphael," Lucio said. "I'd paint you! You should smile more often - it's like dawn breaking…

— Kate Forsyth

Love is The Highest Art Form, The Most Refined Artistic Expression. Love Charms Your Heart and Creates a Masterpiece.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

— Rollo May

I was so fixated on being a wife and being there for someone else that I kind of neglected who I was…

— Keyshia Cole

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what…

— John Guare

I want to stay consistent and drop an album every year, so in the long run, you can see that I'm an…

— Riff Raff

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.

— Hans Arp

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

— Jackson Pollock

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

— Allen Ginsberg

“Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.”

— Anonymous