Artist Quotes · Page 409

“Time is a sculptor's knife, attacking the soft clay to reveal the hard edges beneath.”

— James Pratt

I actually love physics, but art is where I thought I could make a difference for my country.

— Dasha Zhukova

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

— Bruce Lee

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

— Sarah Churchwell

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

— Erica Jong

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

— Galina Ulanova

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

— Marie Windsor

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable

— Liz Phair

The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to…

— Frank Stella

“Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that's why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has…

— Iris Murdoch

I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist…

— Kate Moss

The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud.…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why…

— Steven Pressfield

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much…

— Edward Hopper

“MOMA's values were blown through the American education system, from high school upwards-and downwards, too, greatly raising the status of "creativity" and…

— Robert Hughes

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars…

— Allen Ginsberg

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

— Odilon Redon

“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”

— Mark Simpson

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

— Maurice Ravel

I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's…

— Dianne Reeves

“Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

— Carl Andre

“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”

— Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

“Everything is art,' Tim says, a far-off look suddenly clouding those hazel eyes. 'Death is art. Life is art. Pain is art.”

— Jen Violi

“I know we can't all stay here forever so I want to write my words on the face of today and they'll…

— Shannon Hoon

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're…

— Carmen Ejogo

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

— Jonny Lang

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

— Gunter Brus

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had…

— Ellen Forney

I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good…

— Alia Shawkat

Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

— Joseph Brodsky

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't,…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was…

— Ernest Hemingway

I can't tell you how scary it can be for an artist to be in a space where they don't know where…

— Rohit Saraf

All children are artists,the problem is how to remain and artist as they grow up

— Pablo Picasso

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

— Carrie Coon

Through art, through people working together and building relationships and trust, people can overcome the problems of politics.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no…

— Oscar Wilde

I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.

— Mary Lynn Rajskub