Artist Quotes · Page 390

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

— David Cronenberg

It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

— James Bay

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

— Yann Martel

To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English…

— Liu Dan

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

— Joseph Conrad

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

— Alexander Calder

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

— Masaaki Hatsumi

Beyonce's the kind of artist where you're not gonna see it till it's right.

— Ne-Yo

Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have…

— Todd Rundgren

Through sharing my pain, I can possibly heal your pain. There is no other feeling like it. Money doesn't compare. This is…

— Richard Cabral

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have…

— John Schlesinger

You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true…

— Laurence Overmire

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just…

— Rita Mae Brown

It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what…

— Julian Barnes

Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value.…

— Oliver $

There used to be rather serious firewalls between the artist and the buying public - the gallery, the publisher. And technology demolishes…

— Jonathan Franzen

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is…

— Roy Lichtenstein

I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

— Janina Gavankar

“The universe has been painting its creations with many of the same brushes.” “Do”

— Nathan Van Coops

I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

— Nathan Sawaya

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

— Marcel Duchamp

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

— Vaclav Havel

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

— Jackson Pollock

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

— Russell Lynes

“You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.”

— Amit Kalantri

It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that.

— Kenny G

Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done…

— Richard Prince

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

— Hans Hofmann

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

— Emily Carr

I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.

— Aaron Rose

To have a simultaneous global audience as an artist is more than you could ever hope for.

— Dee Rees

“As with any artist,I see my first piece of blank writing paper as the canvas on which I will create my next…

— Ernest Grant

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

— El Greco

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Three erotic paintings by Isa - $ 20K; chasing said artist in Benz SLS Coupe - $ 195K; the look on her…

— Ella Dominguez

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little…

— John Banville

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life...

— Robert Henri