Artist Quotes · Page 427

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

— Aldous Huxley

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

— Deborah Kass

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

— Homer

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

— Oscar Wilde

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

— Roy Lichtenstein

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I literally have my hand in every aspect of the art world that you could imagine. That's what I've always done.

— Princess Nokia

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

— Sherwood Anderson

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the…

— L. Ron Hubbard

“Good docents often begin by asking the viewer, “What do you see in this work?” The idea that the expert should be…

— Dale B. Martin

Boarding for me, like in the days of 'Dexter,' was really hard, because I couldn't draw as well, and I had people…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a…

— Ellsworth Kelly

And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee,…

— Christopher Moore

My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry…

— Bob Carlisle

“More than any expert Irene had met, Mr. Simms mastered the intricacies of dealing in art. He understood an object's worth, not…

— Kim Fay

I'm a songwriter-singer. I'm very vocal oriented, of course, but songwriting - no matter whether it's for myself or another artist -…

— LP

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

— Leo Tolstoy

To put my name on a track as a solo artist was a big deal to me. There was no band to…

— Nita Strauss

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.

— Seth

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

— Adam Gopnik

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

— Janet Scudder

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your…

— Chris Brown

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I…

— Stevie Nicks

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

— Damien Hirst

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

— Alice Neel

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

— Gertrude Kasebier

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

— Rebecca Miller

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

— Oscar Wilde

I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.

— Aleksandra Mir

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.

— Ridley Scott

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

— Ned Rorem

To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing.

— Julia Holter

I just want to be fully challenged as an artist, so that anyone who looks like me, who relates to me, says,…

— Danielle Brooks

“Art transforms those that witness the creation, into philosophers, enquirers led down a path of mind; of quiet contemplation.”

— Erik S. Lehman

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

— Yayoi Kusama

Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in…

— Brett Young

“A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of…

— Henry Miller

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

— John Dewey

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

— Lucinda Williams

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

— Michelle Zauner