Artist Quotes · Page 335

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

— Edmond de Goncourt

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

— Marcel Duchamp

I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.

— Dieter Rams

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue…

— Hermann Hesse

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

— Agnes Denes

I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad…

— Wade Guyton

Scott Medlock is the 'Top Gun' of sports artists. He truly is the best of the best.

— Jim Hill

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

— Marcel Duchamp

Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my…

— Bonnie Raitt

The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the…

— Jacques Barzun

Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic…

— Alexander Rodchenko

Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.…

— Agnes Martin

“In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere…

— Gregory Sholette

I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like…

— Salman Rushdie

Our farm is a 15-minute walk to Pablo Picasso's last home. Alongside it stands the lovely Notre-Dame-de-Vie Chapel with its 13th-century bell…

— Carol Drinkwater

'The X Factor' is like music camp. It's invaluable what in a short amount of time 'The X Factor' can do to…

— Redfoo

Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition.

— Grayson Perry

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

— Norman Jewison

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

— Willa Cather

“[…] he is the artist of his own life, and created it for himself every hours to suit his latest whim.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

— August Bournonville

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

— Robert Rauschenberg

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

— Jeffrey Deitch

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.

— Robert Breault

"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

— Pablo Picasso

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

— Gary D. Schmidt

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist…

— Steven Pressfield

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

— Christian Marclay

An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

— Willa Cather

“Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

— Gerhard Richter

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

As long as you carry your makeup like you got it done by the biggest celebrity make artist, then everyone will see…

— Bretman Rock

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

— Jake Barton

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

— Frank Zappa

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

— Barbra Streisand

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

— Erno Rubik

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

— Mel Brooks