Artist Quotes · Page 430

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

— Dong Kingman

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

— Jim Morrison

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I really enjoy doing remixes, but I don't want to be known as just a 'remix artist' for the rest of my…

— Kygo

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

— Viola Davis

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

— Robert Henri

It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

— Gelett Burgess

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I…

— Maya Lin

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm…

— Chadwick Boseman

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to…

— Robbie Robertson

All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about…

— Erich Fromm

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and…

— Sheryl Crow

Every artist wants some sort of feedback, because you make this music and you hope people love it and you want to…

— John Legend

I really did feel like I was surrounded by family members. I didn't have a dad, and I remember there were all…

— Jodie Foster

It's always an interesting thing that happens between an artist and their work. People collapse the two, and for any artist, there…

— Sarah Morris

Vulnerability of artists is definitely what makes organizations like PEN necessary because, as I tried to argue, the actual work that writers…

— Salman Rushdie

I enjoy reading and thinking, and it's hard to make that space as an artist.

— Hilary Hahn

When someone tries to take over a country or a culture, they destroy the art.

— Jonathan Majors

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

— Thomas Kinkade

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad…

— Jane Lynch

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

— Victor Hugo

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

— Lee Krasner

“Murder = Art ... Everyone is artist... we all understand different the word "Artist”

— Deyth Banger

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

— Claude Monet

“Oh, it was a complicated business, loving art. It involved a lot more ill will than one might have suspected.”

— Nick Hornby

It's important to make art that you intended to make. If it gets compromised later, that's not a good thing.

— Sarah Snook

It's an artist's choice to listen to criticism or not. I'm very sensitive to criticism.

— Armin van Buuren

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

— Paul Cezanne

I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.

— Howard Pyle

When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

— Herbert Spencer

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

— Anne Truitt

It would be ridiculous for anyone to consider me the face of Korean art.

— G-Dragon

It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

— Dennis Conner

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual…

— Igor Babailov

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

— John Legend

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

— Loren Eiseley

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in…

— Yoko Ono