Artist Quotes · Page 416

“What if you start to think of your art in terms of sales, too? Can you still be true to yourself?”

— Kevin Emerson

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art

— Sol LeWitt

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

— Max Nordau

I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant…

— George Saunders

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

— Jonathan Alter

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

— Marcel Dzama

I did a film called 'The Escape Artist' for Francis Coppola. I had the title role.

— Harry Anderson

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some…

— Anonymous

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting…

— Chris Ofili

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort…

— Murasaki Shikibu

Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)...…

— Helmut Gernsheim

I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of…

— Sam Richardson

Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art…

— Joseph Beuys

My makeup artist likes to define my brows with Maybelline Brow Drama. We brush up on the part closest to my nose…

— Gigi Hadid

. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last.…

— Craig Lucas

A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it.

— Munira Mirza

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

— Eckhart Tolle

I don't want to be that artist who's doing the teenage angst thing and draw it out my whole career.

— Kevin Abstract

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

— Lawrence Lessig

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state…

— Man Ray

“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”

— Pietros Maneos

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

— Phil Klay

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

— Martin Mull

“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

— Vincent Van Gogh

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

— Jerry Saltz

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

— Graeme Base

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art…

— Matthew Collings

I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

— Neil Diamond

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express…

— Nas

The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician

— Poul Henningsen

Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'

— Nell Scovell

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

— Nicole Kidman

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

— Ram Dass

Challenges to the sculptor who fashioned the human personality is running the diamond

— Mak_786

I never claimed to be a generic artist, period. I never wanted to be a generic artist.

— Steven Wilson

I always thought Stuart deserved a little bit of fame. He was a gifted artist and a very wonderful person.

— Astrid Kirchherr

The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The…

— Vsevolod Meyerhold

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

— Al Jourgensen