Artist Quotes · Page 406

I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the…

— Rex Orange County

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

— Brad Holland

“The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art…

— William Saroyan

“Art should grasp the mind the way the vagina grasps the penis-Marcel Duchamp”

— Alice Goldfarb Marquis

“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel…

— Deb Caletti

“I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.”

— Tessa Emily Hall

Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass.

— Frank Shamrock

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

— Jeffrey Lewis

If you want to be an artist, you have to know that art is an ongoing practice, that you're part of a…

— Nicole Georges

The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be…

— Sean O'Casey

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium…

— Freeman Patterson

It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America…

— George Carlin

Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor...…

— Keith Floyd

“Here, I could see, was choice matter on which the expert and art critic could exercise their knowledge and judgment. As I…

— Arthur Machen

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany…

— Joseph Campbell

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.

— Travis Scott

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

— Slim Moon

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

— Paula Vogel

While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.

— Henry Hopper

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

— Golan Levin

“For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

— Robert Barry

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

— Rick Rubin

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

— Michelle Stuart

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

— Anonymous

Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.

— Duff McKagan

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

— Ezra Pound

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

— Eileen Myles

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

— Fred Tomaselli

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and…

— Robert Henri

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

— Maria Shriver

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a…

— Baz Luhrmann

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

— Patrick Kavanagh

“Living well is both a discipline and an art. Concentrate on staying close to Me, the divine Artist.”

— Sarah Young

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

— Bonnie Raitt

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

— Julia Cameron