Artist Quotes · Page 368

There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.

— Charlie Peacock

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

— John Ruskin

“Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.”

— Carol Brearley

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

— Susan Sontag

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

— Milan Kundera

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

— Marcel Duchamp

“To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.”

— Thomas Moore

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist

— Choi Soo-young

The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot,…

— Jacob Hashimoto

“Rigid geometry forced in varied curves is "mother," / is "nature," is systematic violation." Muy Bueno. / This device is for you,…

— Christian Peet

With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes…

— Jonathan Culler

I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of…

— Yasumasa Morimura

I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really…

— Robert Barry

“Have you ever considered, bridgeman, that bad art does more for the world than good art? Artists spend more of their lives…

— Brandon Sanderson

College had a great deal to do with my development as a person. I don't know if I'd be the artist I…

— J. Cole

“It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed…

— Susan Quinn

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

— Carrie Brownstein

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

— Frank Iero

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

— Michelangelo

“End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island”

— C.B. Murphy

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

— Robert Indiana

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and…

— Paul Fussell

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

— Pablo Picasso

Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in…

— Vic Mensa

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

— Oscar Wilde

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

— George Bernard Shaw

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

— T. S. Eliot

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

— Sara Blecher

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

— Sol LeWitt

“I think deep down I'm a painter, but my hands just don't know how to move to capture the beauty.”

— Wasabi Wheathins

Art should be perceived as subjectively as possible, and if anyone wants to see something in 'Belus' that I had not planned,…

— Varg Vikernes

“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No”

— Oscar Wilde

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

— Richard Schmid

As an artiste, you just continue doing your work and enjoy the process of working... and that's what I've always done.

— Deepti Naval

As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking…

— Laura Dern

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

— Anonymous

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

— Dave Hickey

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.

— Henri Nouwen

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

— Nick Cave