Artist Quotes · Page 342

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

— Philip Schultz

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which…

— William Dobell

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

— Aldous Huxley

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

— Samuel Beckett

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

— Ayn Rand

“Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.”

— Elizabeth Catlett

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process,…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

— Ryan Lewis

I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn.…

— Mikhail Tal

“Living is art. Breathing and heart beating is music. Seeing is painting the world with our eyes. Touching is sculpting the shape…

— Jacob Nordby

We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said…

— Fady Joudah

“It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was…

— Kevin Wilson

My Picassos and Ferraris - those are kind of just toys. Those aren't the things that matter. What matters in the car…

— Les Wexner

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of…

— Katherine Anne Porter

In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home…

— Bob Ross

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And…

— Connie Willis

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

— Sol LeWitt

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work…

— Patti Smith

Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

— Swami Vivekananda

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

— Marcel Duchamp

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

— Bill Watterson

For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured.

— Dua Lipa

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

— Nipsey Hussle

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting,…

— Julian Schnabel

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each…

— Brad Holland

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

— Salvador Dali

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

— Antony Gormley

“St. Albert and the LSD Revelation Revolution oil painting by Alex Grey, 2006 color image in the book Net of Being by…

— Rhoney Gissen Stanley

“form, not the crashing waves far below at the base of the cliff. She looked eerily like the sketch that Kenneth had…

— Mary Jo Putney

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

— Jasper Johns

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

— Thomas McEvilley

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give…

— Jean Cocteau

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even…

— Friedrich Schiller

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

— Idina Menzel

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.

— Robert Genn

“Character, that subtle art, disappeared among them during those days and nights, existed only in a book or on a painted wall.”

— Michael Ondaatje

I'm traditional. I'm like a samurai. I'm a martial artist. I'm a sniper. I know things about the body.

— Uriah Hall

I never thought I'd be able to say 25 years about anything, really, much less be a recording artist for 25 years.

— Lari White