Artist Quotes · Page 403

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.

— John Maeda

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

— Chris Martin

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

— M.I.A

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

— Aristotle

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

— Fernando Perez

I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

— Nick Hornby

“It (Andre Malraux's The Psychology of Art)was too expensive to buy but I located a copy of this luminous book in the…

— Vernon Sproxton

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with…

— Edward Betts

Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos…

— John Marin

It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germany… Most of our male colleagues…

— Hannah Hoch

“I had learned from my own father that it was almost blasphemy to regard the function of art as merely to reproduce…

— Thomas Merton

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast;…

— Voltaire

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and…

— Peter Schjeldahl

I get approached to do a lot of commissioned art. Sometimes I do it, but I usually don't, given the day job…

— Tim Fish

“A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...”

— Anonymous

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

— Asger Jorn

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

— Ralph Richardson

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have…

— Charley Pride

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

— Helena Rubinstein

The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social…

— Thomas Jefferson

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

— Elaine de Kooning

We could sit back and be complacent and do the formula that we know works. To an artist, that gets old to…

— B-Real

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

— Gustave Courbet

“I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to…

— Hunter Reveur

I would definitely say I'm predominantly a pop artist, obviously, but my music is different. It's not just top-40-radio-type music.

— Madison Beer

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

— Kazuaki Tanahashi

It is like any other work of art. It is and never can be changed. Behind everything there is always The unknown…

— Randall Jarrell

I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.

— Gary Clark, Jr

As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to…

— Khalid

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

— Robertson Davies

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and…

— Sam Francis

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

— Irwin Shaw

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my…

— Frank Frazetta

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

— Stanley Kubrick

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

— Scott Avett

I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as…

— Raekwon

It's a feeling I can't describe, to see my work in action. The best is when an artist is appreciative.

— Karen Civil