Artist Quotes · Page 334

The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

— Mike Svob

Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

— Marshall McLuhan

People look to 'Dear White People' as an encyclopedia of our culture. But it's also art, and there are characters with different…

— Logan Browning

“Critical thinking is a lost 'art' that has yet to be found, if it is even being looked for".”

— R. Alan Woods

Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks.

— Mark Rothko

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

— Andre Malraux

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

— Gutzon Borglum

“Even a nation brainwashed to equate artsiness with art knows when its eyelids are drooping.”

— B.R. Myers

“An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a…

— Patricia Highsmith

“A young house painter who fails miserably in his choice of profession is capable, also for a period of twenty years, of…

— Wilhelm Reich

I think, probably, being a young artist, there were a lot of things I thought I knew and I wanted to do,…

— Tiffany Darwish

“And when I protested a bit more, I remember he said, 'My dear Lady Ponsonby, there's nothing immoral about this. Art is…

— Roald Dahl

No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced…

— Amanda Palmer

Burning Man is like one big giant art installation in the middle of starkly beautiful desert landscape, and the attendees are creative…

— Tom Anderson

I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running…

— Amanda Palmer

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

— Lee Ann Womack

I think that a lot of times you have artists that try to deliver a positive message.

— Big Daddy Kane

“How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career…

— Sara Baume

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

— Chris Robinson

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

— Jon Pareles

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion…

— Richard P. Feynman

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not…

— Urs Fischer

I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's…

— Sia Furler

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

— Damien Hirst

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

— Bill Russell

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

— Barbara Kingsolver

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

— Tilda Swinton

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

— William McElcheran

I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.

— Aubrey O'Day

No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always…

— Derek R. Audette

“He agreed with David Hockney that an artist really had to be able to draw before anything else could be achieved.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

A lot of queer characters get painted with either a caricature brush, or they're used to teach, in a way.

— Dan Levy

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

— Rebecca West

“Painting consists of long periods of minutes followed by short bursts of hours”

— Steven Brust

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

— Alan Bean

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

— Norm Dicks

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

— John Kricfalusi

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

— Aristotle