Artist Quotes · Page 345

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

— James Baldwin

“whatever it may consist of, however its specific colors may be painted,”

— Cornelius Wencel

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

— Hakim Bey

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

— Luc Tuymans

I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

— Robert Genn

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

— Marion Dane Bauer

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

— Lon Milo DuQuette

I get to make art at my own pace. I get to think big and move slow. There's nothing better than that.

— RaMell Ross

The more people are listening to music and experiencing it, the more value for both the music companies and the artist, especially…

— Troy Carter

With me being an artist that took over a decade to get on, there's so many different things that I have in…

— Rick Ross

What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small…

— Franz Cizek

It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really…

— Oscar Isaac

“The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his…

— Max Delbruck

A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“But sometimes talent isn't worth shit. There are tons of talentless people out there making zillions of dollars. And unfortunately, an equal…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

People think they are not allowed to laugh at art, but they are. Damien Hirst laughs at himself. I know Jake and…

— Vic Reeves

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

— Yareli Arizmendi

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed…

— Larry Wall

I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner…

— Eva Hesse

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

— Jacques Barzun

The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

— Marya Mannes

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

— John Philip Sousa

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

— Donald Miller

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

— Josh Groban

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy…

— Ziggy Marley

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

— Robin G. Collingwood

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

— Stephen Sondheim

That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.

— Kehinde Wiley

It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.

— David Galenson

The man who throws a bombis an artist, because he prefersa great moment to everything.

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Reinvention is the biggest gift I've been given. I've gone from graffiti artist to jewellery maker, urban musician to conductor.

— Goldie

I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.

— Amrita Sher-Gil

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

— Ronnie Wood

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

— James Cameron

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know…

— Jasper Johns

It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment…

— Forest Whitaker

I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.

— Diana Ross

A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.

— Alfred Brendel

I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about…

— Mary GrandPre