Artist Quotes · Page 347

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

— Alice Neel

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so…

— Paul Gauguin

“When a person encounters his own statue and takes a hammer to it, performance art adds depth to greatness.”

— Bauvard

Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

— Jay-Z

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

— DJ Spooky

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

— Sophie Swetchine

Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because it's scary.

— Tyler Farr

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the…

— Claude Monet

“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think,…

— Donna Tartt

I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to…

— Giorgio Vasari

You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of…

— Dawn Richard

I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in…

— Marcel Duchamp

Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel…

— Robert Genn

The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with…

— Brian Morton

It's difficult as an artist sometimes. There's a lot of pressure when it's your first album. You want to make something that's…

— Kali Uchis

The hardest thing for - not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge,…

— Kendrick Lamar

“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.”

— Oscar Wilde

The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion…

— Carrie Brownstein

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

— Georges Braque

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to…

— James Joyce

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

— Max Bill

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

— Michele Cassou

The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance

— Aristotle

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of…

— John F. Kennedy

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

— John Thomas Sladek

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

— Brian Christian

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

— Al Capp

“The most distinctive quality of artmaking is the investment of the artist’s own humanity in the finished piece.”

— Ted Orland

More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

— James Gunn

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

— Evelyn Waugh

“Great sleepless artists who had to die for a few hours in order to live for centuries.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

— Susan Sontag

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.

— Walter J. Phillips

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what…

— Shaquille O'Neal

There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.

— Sophie Blackall

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

— Ruth Asawa

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

— Gary Holland

“The deep secret at the core of art, in the artist himself, was the embodying of an instinct for play.”

— Sándor Márai