Artist Quotes · Page 346

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.

— Terri Windling

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

— Vera Wang

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

— Anonymous

I have painted gods, and goddesses too, and my favourite is Ganesha and Radha Krishna.

— Hansika Motwani

“I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses.”

— Anne Truitt

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

— Walt Disney

Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

— Dasha Zhukova

“You have to find the art that is within you. If you live your life without your own art, you are living…

— Victory Crayne

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression […] I don’t think anybody can separate…

— Ai Weiwei

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it…

— Anonymous

Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with…

— Dave Haywood

It was special with me being from Memphis and knowing the history of the venue, knowing all of the artists who performed…

— Yo Gotti

It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense…

— Giorgio de Chirico

Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio ­stations, U.S. artists aren't ­compensated when their records are…

— Neil Portnow

If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on…

— Edmund Snow Carpenter

When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything.…

— ASAP Rocky

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as…

— Oriana Fallaci

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment...

— Alfred North Whitehead

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

— Gustave Flaubert

Across the world, wherever good art has been created, that society has been in crisis.

— Pankaj Tripathi

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

— Seth Godin

What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

— William Butler Yeats

“On one wall there was a recent watercolour — Saint E.O. Wilson of Hymenoptera”

— Margaret Atwood

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

— Montgomery Clift

I just don't want to be the artist who's out on the road and has no real perspective of what's happening at…

— Lecrae

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

— Tyne Daly

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say,…

— Kehinde Wiley

It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds…

— Marshall McLuhan

Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between…

— Nathan Goldstein

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

— Thom Mayne

The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage,…

— Avery Sunshine

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

— Richard Foreman

As an artist in this day and age with social media, you feel more like an object than you do a human.

— Amine

“Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

— Jacob Lawrence

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

— Charles Saatchi

Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.

— Robert Herrick

I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.

— Cornelia Parker