Artist Quotes · Page 397

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

— Morgan Parker

“Rhetoric makes use of nature’s secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their most beautiful work is…

— Giacomo Casanova

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I…

— Arshile Gorky

“What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining,…

— Willa Cather

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

— Eric Fischl

When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

— Natasha Leggero

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

— John Ruskin

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind...

— Leon Battista Alberti

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by…

— Charles Baudelaire

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration.…

— Chuck Close

There are periods in your life in which you dream much more as an artist - you remember your dreams in the…

— Gaspar Noe

When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were…

— Jeffrey Deitch

Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or…

— Goldwin Smith

The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego…

— Steven Pressfield

“When I was a child, I never thought to myself, someday I want to be an artist or I want to write…

— Anonymous

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

— Rudolf Nureyev

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.

— Dizzee Rascal

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

— Val Kilmer

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

— Dave Barry

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

— David Hockney

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

— Nicolas Berggruen

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your…

— N. K. Jemisin

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to…

— Gustave Courbet

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

— Patti Smith

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

— Joseph Campbell

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

— Josef Albers

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.

— George Ezra

“Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.”

— Andrew Levy

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see…

— Tommy Lee

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he…

— Romare Bearden

On the 'Blacks & Browns' record, it's me and Sad Boy. He's a Hispanic artist, and we're talking about what we got…

— YG

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

— Jim Morrison

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

— William James

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

— Ayi Kwei Armah

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

— Edgar Degas