Artist Quotes · Page 357

You never know what can happen if you get sampled by the biggest artist in the world.

— Frank Dukes

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it…

— John Lithgow

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

— Irving Penn

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

— David Bellos

If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason…

— Walter Becker

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

— Barnett Newman

You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist.…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

“Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds,…

— Arundhati Roy; God of Small Things

“And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older…

— Sean Parker

You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole…

— Sarah Dessen

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for…

— Robert Fripp

I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with…

— Jeff Dunham

What I really wanted wasn't what I thought I was supposed to want. It wasn't what people had told me I should…

— Sara Benincasa

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract…

— Derek R. Audette

I've never met an artist who was at a certain level of spirituality offstage and then lowered it onstage.

— Bart Millard

I will not only be a very strong independent artist, I'm gonna inspire a lot of people, like Macklemore, one of my…

— Sky Blu

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

— Mason Cooley

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

— Neil Farber

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

— Susan Sontag

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

— Pierre Soulages

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

— Norman Rockwell

“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.”

— Oscar Wilde

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

— Marcel Duchamp

I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.

— Sharon Stone

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

— John Currin

Creating art is like being sick - you bring up all your innermost thoughts, and then you have to ask yourself why…

— Goldie

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is…

— Albrecht Durer

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in…

— Hendrik Willem Van Loon

“It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides…

— Anthony Liccione

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you…

— Marilyn Manson

“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE”

— Oscar Wilde

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures…

— Channing Dungey

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

— Pam Grier

It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!

— Paul Auster

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

— Scott McCloud

The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.

— Naomi Alderman

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and…

— Grandma Moses