Artist Quotes · Page 322

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without…

— John French Sloan

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

— Oscar Wilde

It wasn't a conscious decision to be bold or anything. It all depends on how different artists envision me.

— Amrita Rao

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm reclusive when it comes to me giving art away because I get real sensitive about that and critiques.

— J.I.D

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits…

— Olafur Eliasson

I think 'Hamilton' has made me look at myself deeper as an artist and what I'm looking for as an artist.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

— Richard B. Garnett

If you're going to be a visual artist, then there has to be something in the work that accounts for the possibility…

— Richard Tuttle

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right…

— Michele Cassou

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and…

— Yayoi Kusama

The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed…

— Seth Godin

I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the…

— Reeve Carney

I do feel like a fraud a lot of the time because I've never been interested in people who say 'I'm a…

— Richard Flanagan

The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in…

— Leo Tolstoy

A lot of artists are involved with fabrication. Artists today are making more objects and many of them need the participation of…

— Larry Gagosian

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

— Wayne Thiebaud

A cartoonist's style is created by weaknesses and personal restrictions as much as strengths.

— Barry Blitt

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

— Jerry Saltz

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a…

— Christopher Lasch

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

— Judy Chicago

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

— Matthew Collings

I never want to be one of those artists who feels untouchable and extraordinary. I have to be genuine.

— Clairo

“Art school is a small island of acceptance in a vast sea of disinterest.”

— Ted Orland

Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.

— Devendra Banhart

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

— Ice T

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

— Franz Marc

Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.

— Hetti Perkins

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow…

— Andre Gide

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the…

— Dennis Quaid

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

— Vikas Swarup

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on…

— Claes Oldenburg

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

— Steve Earle

I fight for whatever I believe in! I've learned to trust myself. I went from a being a rapper to an artist.

— Tierra Whack

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

— Walter Gropius

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

— Arthur Miller

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able…

— Jan Brett