Artist Quotes · Page 325

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

— Girl Talk

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

— Robert Lyn Nelson

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

— Clement Greenberg

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

— Jimmy Cliff

As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.

— Tony Yayo

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

— Salvador Dali

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where…

— Arundhati Roy

A song is composed of music and lyrics: 50 percent is the producer, 50 percent is the artist. So, I'm responsible for…

— Gza

As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt…

— David Cobley

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh…

— Francine Prose

“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do…

— Robert Henri

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of…

— Gustav Klimt

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of…

— Honor Harger

“Museums hold collections in trust for future generations. It is our responsibility to see that these objects—representing the cultural heritage of more…

— Holly Witchey

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without…

— Caspar David Friedrich

I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.

— John Waite

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

— Thomas Mann

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

— Julia Cameron

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

— Francis Picabia

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

— Theodor Adorno

I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned…

— Nas

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

— Gunter Grass

“The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

— Craig Ferguson

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

— Hans Hofmann

Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists,…

— Manning Marable

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

— Mary Oliver

I'm someone who admires artists like Madonna and David Bowie, who really change their sound drastically between each record.

— Charli XCX

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

— Uta Hagen

My big thing is that nobody is involved in my artistic creations and not putting their hands and their ideas into that.

— Justin Nozuka

I often see only my mistakes. I always feel I could have done better. Every artist goes through it.

— Fahadh Faasil

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

— Jeff Koons

A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact…

— R. B. Kitaj

Artists tend to get this thing called demo-itis, and I'm extremely guilty of that.

— Ari Lennox

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is,…

— H. L. Mencken

The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

— Andrew Wyeth

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

— Carl Jung