Artist Quotes · Page 379

Being an independent artist myself with my own company, that's more money for me.

— Trina

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

— Ai Weiwei

Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible…

— Jamila Woods

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

— Oscar Wilde

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

— Nathan Sawaya

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

— John Paul Caponigro

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

— Keanu Reeves

There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you…

— Laura Belem

I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is…

— Julian Schnabel

I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always…

— Rob Zombie

In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows.…

— Glenn Ligon

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that…

— Robertson Davies

I always say I write because I have questions, not because I have answers. It's true that you begin the conversation -…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new…

— Tiffany Hwang

You have to be a little bit cautious when the market gets quite strong because there's a tendency to anoint a genius…

— Larry Gagosian

“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.”

— Donald E. Knuth

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

— Vincent Van Gogh

You have to come to terms with yourself as an artist and know what you do best.

— Keith Whitley

There is something spiritual about art that connects us with ourselves and with others; it's really about coming together and creating bridges.

— Yasmine Hamdan

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

— Charles Rosin

'The Disaster Artist' book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there's something so rewarding about creating something from…

— Greg Sestero

“The sculptor is master of time; he can change his subjects forward or back.”

— Irving Stone

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it…

— Bridget Riley

Artists from all over the world have had a lot of positive influence on me. Their works always inspire me.

— Jackson Wang

If you succeed at all, you find yourself suddenly working with artists whose work you don't just admire but you deeply love.

— Gail Simone

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

— Esperanza Spalding

Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like…

— Immortal Technique

“Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.”

— Anne Rice

So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was…

— Warren MacKenzie

Nature alone is illimitably rich, and nature alone forms the great artist.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a…

— Serj Tankian

The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

— Gary Hume

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in…

— Edward Bond

I have always believed that an artiste needs to respond to a story first. One has to feel it in order to…

— Dia Mirza

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in…

— John Heartfield

I paint on and off, not very regularly. But since I was in school, I had an inclination for it.

— Bhumika Chawla

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

— Edmund Wilson

“Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.”

— Liz Rideal