Artist Quotes · Page 331

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

— Daniel Pinkwater

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

— John Frusciante

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

— James Whistler

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

— Walter Darby Bannard

We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we…

— Hasan M. Elahi

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

— Edvard Munch

Bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world.

— Ross Bleckner

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

— Andrew Levitas

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can…

— Pierre Alechinsky

The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The…

— George Edward Woodberry

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both…

— Louis Kronenberger

I worked really hard to develop me as an artist and as a musician. I have so many different influences and play…

— Elle King

“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically…

— Anthony Burgess

Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move…

— Jamake Highwater

Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative…

— Herbert Marcuse

I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I…

— David Henry Hwang

Every makeup artist or stylist with whom I work has many special ideas, tips, and creations. I can always learn so much…

— Liu Wen

It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature.

— Ellen Ullman

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

— Arshile Gorky

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for…

— Adolf Loos

Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian…

— Paul Allen

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

— Karl Kraus

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my…

— Yayoi Kusama

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

— Alexander Pope

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even…

— Edgar Degas

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

— Balthus

There are so few barriers to working with artists because the contract is brief and straightforward, it allows us to just move…

— Doug Walters

Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking…

— Jeff Koons

It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country…and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world.

— Louis Comfort Tiffany

I like painting, I think it's relaxing. I also like designing; I don't really like the manual labor, to be honest.

— Christina Anstead

“Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.”

— Chaim Potok

Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.

— Haris Pasovic

“I’m going to paint too. I’m going to paint pictures of ghosts and devils and horses out of hell.”

— Osamu Dazai

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

— Robert Genn

Graffiti art brings you back to your human skills - your spirit and what your being is really about.

— KRS-One

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

— Alan Arkin

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

— Harry Belafonte

I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with…

— Matt Squire

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

— Jose Bergamin