Artist Quotes · Page 373

In my opinion, my business runs better when my family is a part of it, and I get to see my wife…

— Walker Hayes

No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

— Steven Pressfield

The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

— Mario Botta

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

— Bill Ayers

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow…

— Talib Kweli

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good…

— Josh Peck

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

— Chris Zylka

What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To…

— Martin Filler

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the…

— Dorianne Laux

What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

“A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it:…

— Steve Turner

I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love,…

— Sarah Kay

I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic…

— James Marsters

I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are,…

— Pittacus Lore

I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the…

— Eva Hesse

“When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

— Chuck D

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and…

— Ellsworth Kelly

There's a kind of passionate expression in all my pieces. It's just that the nature of the expression takes different forms.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

— Peter Max

“To visit a museum is fine, to be a museum piece is terrible! - Gioconda and Si-Ya-U ”

— Nâzım Hikmet

“Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, "once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art.”

— Charles Williams

I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

— Chantal Joffe

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

— Jeanette Winterson

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to…

— Renata Adler

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

— John Maeda

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a…

— Walter Darby Bannard

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

— Winslow Homer

I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and…

— Shirley Eaton

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

— Childe Hassam

Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.

— Robert Genn

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could…

— Herbert Marcuse

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

— Claude Monet

“An artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates.”

— Jean Lescure

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

— Vivek Shraya

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

— Bono

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting…

— Martha Graham