Artist Quotes · Page 382

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.

— Hetti Perkins

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

— Franz Marc

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

— Walter Gropius

I fight for whatever I believe in! I've learned to trust myself. I went from a being a rapper to an artist.

— Tierra Whack

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

— Steve Earle

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on…

— Claes Oldenburg

It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and…

— Paul Allen

“You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card…

— Donna Tartt

“The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling…

— Virginia Lee

That would be something I would stress the most to any artist - is, number one, don't ever allow, you know, success…

— Beth Hart

Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal…

— Leopold Auer

“Ninety-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as good as…

— William Faulkner

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a…

— Gil Kane

“As an artist, if your work doesn't inflame at least part of the audience, then you might as well call it quits…

— Alys Arden

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the…

— Dennis Quaid

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

— Vikas Swarup

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow…

— Andre Gide

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

— John Locke

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

— Matthew Collings

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

— David Mamet

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

— M. Shadows

I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people.

— Neal Adams

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and…

— Erich Fromm

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able…

— Jan Brett

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

— Arthur Miller

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.

— Arshile Gorky

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

— Anton Chekhov

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

— Nicole Krauss

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

— Guy Berryman

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

— Sol LeWitt

“I draw a girl without a face, drawing somebody else’s face onto her own reflection.”

— Akemi Dawn Bowman

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

— Liza Campbell

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

— Brian Selznick

“A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked…

— Christian Bobin

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

— Miranda July

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

— Emile Zola

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have…

— James Pearse Connelly