Artist Quotes · Page 392

I don't really have a favorite artist - I mean, I really love Drake - but it depends on my mood. I…

— Taylor Townsend

The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

— Lewis Mumford

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it…

— Ray Bradbury

The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.

— Willem de Kooning

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

— David Hockney

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

— Friedrich Schiller

In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose…

— Francis Bacon

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to…

— Patti Smith

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of…

— Keith Haring

You learn about yourself when you're collecting art. You learn what you're capable of. After all, we're not speaking about pennies-we're speaking…

— Laurence Graff

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken…

— Alain LeRoy Locke

The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and…

— Moby

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others…

— Francis Ford Coppola

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our…

— Barbara Jordan

Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many…

— Dan Brown

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Anonymous

Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

— Blixa Bargeld

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American…

— Willem de Kooning

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

— Paul Gauguin

“I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.”

— César Vallejo

“Sorrow fades," he muttered as he retrieved the last fragment, "grief dies, but Art lives forever.”

— Kenyon Gambier

When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.

— Ben Eine

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

— James Dean

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

— Jackson Pollock

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”

— Joseph Conrad

I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of…

— Romeo Santos

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

— Alexander Eliot

I am on a mural in Belfast with 'Floating up the Lagan in a bubble' on it. You know you have made…

— Adrian Dunbar

I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper.

— Redman

I am not a big artist myself. I am, I guess, a somewhat successful songwriter now, but I think that my value…

— Tobias Forge

“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent”

— Oscar Wilde

“The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.”

— Dominic Smith

“How much distance should there be between art and artist? I’d say no more than a lifetime.”

— Jarod Kintz

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

— Robyn

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel…

— T. Allen Lawson