Artist Quotes · Page 354

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.

— Swizz Beatz

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

— Henry Flynt

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

— Richard Artschwager

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because…

— Kiki Smith

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered…

— Susan Glaspell

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

— Hisham Matar

“[...] For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the…

— John Berger

In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a…

— Stanley Kubrick

Bruegel has these paintings of people just... interacting with each other. And there's this special wink - it's not a celebration of…

— Carey Mercer

Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…

— Howard Zinn

“Advancing towards a person’s dreams with confidence enables a person to move beyond restrictive boundaries and meet with uncommon success. Liberated from…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

You have to have really thick skin. Art is obviously there to be criticized and there to be taken in different ways.…

— Bel Powley

People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy…

— Dana Spiotta

Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me…

— Rembrandt

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

— Henry Ward Beecher

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

— John Langdon

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

— Jock Sturges

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

— Ali Smith

“An artist is ultimately remembered for creating an uncompromised body of work. Uncompromised, unfettered and fiercely passionate.”

— Nidhie sharma

One of the best feelings that I've experienced is being surrounded by artists and thinkers who inspire you.

— Fred Hechinger

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

— Barbara Goldsmith

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

— Criss Jami

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need…

— Julia Cameron

“No wonder Van Gogh cut his ear off, I thought; there’s nothing else to do in a place like this but cut…

— Philip Kerr

“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.”

— Dan Simmons

I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.

— Harry Callahan

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing…

— Franz Kafka

The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.

— Josef Albers

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

— Rebecca West

“What are ideals but an admission that life is worthless? What is art but the negation of life?”

— Fernando Pessoa

As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to…

— Miranda July

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

— Robert Henri

I don't know what I would have been doing if I was not in YG, but I think I would be doing…

— G-Dragon

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of…

— Keorapetse Kgositsile

“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a…

— Douglas Adams

I really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics.

— Amber Rose

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

— George Jean Nathan