The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
In the '70s, as a kid, someone took me to a Tournee of Animation festival at the L.A. County Museum of Art. — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me… — John Feldmann Copy Share Image
Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by — Blaine Hogan Copy Share Image
Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open. — Jacek Tylicki Copy Share Image
The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
If I was feeling angry, I had to investigate not just who or what I was angry at, but why. And then… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I just happened to be Latino, and like any artist, I was trying to forge a career. If I opened doors for… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
You don't need as much as some of the other artists but you do sing with your eyes close and it gives… — Maxine Powell Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed. — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
If an artist doesn't have anything to say, he'll be quiet. Or he'll yell into the darkness until he finds something and… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.” — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate— it is life, intensified, brilliant life. ALAIN ARIAS-MISSON” — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
“Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)” — Legs McNeil Copy Share Image
Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that. — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do… — Estelle Copy Share Image
I think I'm eclectic and I'm never afraid to not know an artist or a band or an album because I want… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
Art as language…in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes. — Ira Levin Copy Share Image
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I'm not just a country artist. I've got so any sides to me and the music I write. — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened. — William Klein Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
