Artist Quotes · Page 344

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

— Laurie Anderson

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

— Don Roff

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

— John Ruskin

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

— Brice Marden

A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid…

— John Currin

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

— Harvey Dunn

Honestly, I was a fan before I got the opportunity to be an artist. I was the kind of fan who would…

— Kelsea Ballerini

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II…

— Peter Marino

It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if…

— Ma Yansong

A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone…

— Neil Gaiman

We all want recognition and validation to an extent for our art, but greatness as a trade for decency is a risky…

— El-P

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest…

— George Rodrigue

With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That…

— Petra Collins

“He’s living with artists!” said his mother tearfully to the ambassador. “Oh, leave the boy alone,” said the ambassador. “He’ll soon get…

— Paulo Coelho

My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I…

— Mark Bradford

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Every artist I love is a hill that I'm willing to die on for the rest of my life.

— Gracie Abrams

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

— Margaret Mead

I've really grown from how I used to be. Things are changing in MAJOR ways. Just wait and see. I'm not longer…

— Anonymous

“What you don't learn in art theory is how too big a compliment can hurt more than a slap to the face.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

— Ezra Pound

One may draw a dragon or a tiger, but it is hard to draw their skeletons; one may know a person's face…

— Anonymous

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine,…

— Andy Warhol

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

— Anton Webern

I have had such a satisfying career; I've gotten to do so many amazing things as an artist.

— Lari White

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

— Sigmar Polke

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

— Robert Henri

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

— Henri Matisse

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

— Bryan Konietzko

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

— Robert Breault

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

— Henry Moore

Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.

— Cree Summer

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

— Lynn Shelton

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

— Frank Stella

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of…

— Cyril Connolly

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.

— Tom Robbins

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

— Jasper Johns

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or…

— Emil Nolde

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

— Chris Van Allsburg