Artist Quotes · Page 337

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

— James Schuyler

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power…

— Samuel Johnson

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

— Marilynne Robinson

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is…

— Victor Hugo

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

— Hans Hofmann

Everybody has lives, everybody has kids, everybody has stuff to go do. They don't want to sit and worship your art.

— Nate Bargatze

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.

— Wayne Thiebaud

I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned…

— Jill Scott

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or…

— Raymond Pettibon

I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal…

— Betty Who

If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through…

— Albert Einstein

Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For…

— Cory Trepanier

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what…

— Brian Eno

Echo & the Bunnymen just copied 'People Are Strange,' which is cool, we made some money, thanks. But when an artist finds…

— John Densmore

Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

— Henry Threadgill

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult

— Anonymous

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

— Virgil Abloh

I am going to take art more seriously. I most definitely want to leave behind art, and that does not just mean…

— Janelle Monae

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.”

— Steven Pressfield

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking…

— John Dyer Baizley

I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be…

— Brooke Fraser

The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others.

— Emile Gruppe

I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets.

— Trevor Paglen

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

— David Rockefeller

“The executive intern responded: 'Do we all really value a painting more than a photograph anymore?”

— David Foster Wallace

My dream job growing up was always to be an artist. It wasn't even that I would be a rapper or singer;…

— Lil Tjay

“Perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one's own work.”

— Virginia Woolf

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by…

— John Ruskin

“The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.”

— Joseph Kosuth

I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.

— Lyle Tuttle

I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope.

— Martha Graham

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

— Jerry Garcia

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

— George Inness

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

— Robert Rauschenberg

I was the first artist to put the national anthem on the charts, and I'm thrilled.

— Jose Feliciano

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

— Al Hirschfeld

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that…

— Anish Kapoor