Artist Quotes · Page 326

“Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred…

— Victor Hugo

“The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not.”

— Tom Robbins

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

— Anonymous

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

— Georges Braque

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good…

— Neil Gaiman

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

— Bernard Berenson

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little…

— Laurence Olivier

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

— Melvin Glover

What matters to me as a creative artist is the credibility of the production house, the honesty in the script, and the…

— Kriti Kharbanda

“It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“All right,” Roland said. “Rudeness is forgivable, Blaine; so I was taught in my youth, and the clay has dried in the…

— Stephen King

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out…

— John Berryman

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say,…

— Edward Hopper

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know…

— Jerry Saltz

I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would…

— Louise Bourgeois

The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk…

— Tom Silverman

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

— Richard MacDonald

I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.

— Masi Oka

I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.

— Raheem DeVaughn

“Ripples of karmic events are best humbly done in an artistic, significant, unique karmic harvests without any forms of retaliation.”

— Angelica Hopes

I'm a country artist first and just happen to be on television doing it.

— Blake Shelton

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it…

— Pablo Picasso

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

— Matt Smith

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

— Tracey Moffatt

The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize…

— Maurice Blondel

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

— Anonymous

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own…

— Mia Wasikowska

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

— Louise Wilder

“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.”

— Pat Conroy

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

— Lynn Nottage

I am an artist. An actor performs, whether it's in front of the camera or a live audience.

— Puneet Issar

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

— Tori Amos

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

— Vincent Van Gogh

When I was in art school, I worried that being a painter seemed like it could be an elusive dream, and fashion…

— Cynthia Rowley

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that…

— Seth Godin

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses…

— Francis Bacon

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe