Artist Quotes · Page 330

Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels.

— Glenn Beck

I feel a lot of hip-hop videos are all about portraying a lifestyle that the artist doesn't even live.

— Kano

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

— Tom Robbins

“She was a work of art. Jared saw the paint and the canvas and a few pleasant shapes. Ace felt the earth…

— Kit Rocha

My art is based on impurity. You have to mix things from different refined cultures to get something raw, to make it…

— Sean Scully

“And in uttering that Excellently executed truth You become an artist too”

— Maddy Kobar

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on…

— Ruth Negga

“how to do it” will never create an Art, it will never shake the old skin, it will never get us out…

— Charles Bukowski

If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has…

— Gerhard Richter

The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would…

— Hilma af Klint

All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on…

— Michael Leunig

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game…

— Sheryl Crow

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to…

— James Agee

Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is…

— Lewis Hyde

“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion…

— Bob Colacello

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day…

— Robert Smithson

The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or…

— David Gilmour

“Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the…

— Adam Langer

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is…

— Paul Strand

We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences.

— Jane Rosenthal

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

— Wassily Kandinsky

“We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable…

— John Berger

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

— Morris Graves

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

— Robert Reynolds

Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.

— Russell Smith

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the…

— Giorgio Moroder

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

— Devendra Banhart

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

— Geoffrey Beene

“The hedge was a half-painted picture which would be finished in a few days.”

— E.M. Forster

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

— Kehinde Wiley

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

— Seth Godin

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

— Romain Gary

If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.

— Carine Roitfeld

Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available.

— Chris Sullivan

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

— Goldwin Smith

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

— Bob Lefsetz

An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.

— Martin Kippenberger