Artist Quotes · Page 398

“After all, a love of art is a fine thing for a young boy, but art is long—and life can be pretty…

— Vincent Price

“And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?”

— Donna Tartt

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it…

— Pierre Berge

To me, the making of art and experiences around that are the biggest part to me.

— Alison Sudol

“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

That's why I try to stay away from the big-name producers, so I can prove that it's not about the producer, it's…

— Sisqo

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

— Agnes Denes

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status…

— Claire Danes

Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain…

— Walter J. Phillips

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I definitely enjoy working within different contexts, with different collaborators, and in different locations. I need to keep feeding myself as an…

— Mirah

Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to…

— Paul Burch

I love pop songs so much and I don't put a ton of pressure on myself as a solo artist to always…

— Finneas

Why would anyone even bring up the issue (of the statues) in a country where there are more than 10 state-owned institutions…

— Gamal El-Ghitani

The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help…

— James T. Hubbell

“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]”

— Miles J. Unger

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory…

— Leonard Bernstein

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

— Susan Sontag

“When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to…

— Ingo F. Walther

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

Art is supposed to change and grow and accord with the times. It seems perfect to me that we have a period…

— Claudia Jessie

Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, 'Look at my awesome work.'

— Cai Guo-Qiang

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

— Francis Bacon

I think I am the type of artist that, time and time again, either people love or don't know about.

— Raheem DeVaughn

Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.

— Romeo Santos

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

— Brandon Boyd

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

— Truman Capote

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

— John Feldmann

I always loved music, but I didn't know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference.

— India Arie

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

— Paul Laseau

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you…

— Nick Bantock

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

— Brett Weston

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…

— Roger Scruton

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

— Steven Pressfield

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

— John Constable

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

— Eric Hoffer

I do Xeroxes of my past collections and then I draw over them to see where I'll go next.

— Rick Owens

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

— Fernando Pessoa