Artist Quotes · Page 433

Art is a dialogue. I'm throwing rocks across a chasm and hoping people catch them on the other side.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above…

— Swami Vivekananda

But as an artiste, I want to challenge myself because that is what art is all about.

— Amit Sadh

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

— Douglas Adams

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

— Jenni Rivera

there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.

— Inez Haynes Irwin

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

— Kehinde Wiley

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as…

— Tony Kushner

I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what…

— Connie Wanek

“The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the…

— William Carlos WIlliams

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could…

— Ben Eine

What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But…

— Marc Chagall

It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural…

— Ansel Adams

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through,…

— Brian Austin Green

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and…

— Bruce Lee

“There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his…

— Henry David Thoreau

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but…

— John Lithgow

I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.

— John Lydon

I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it.

— David Byrne

“Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art…

— Raymond Salvatore Harmon

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

— Damien Hirst

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk…

— Tom Stoppard

The idea of artist as persona is something that I'm attracted to, so obviously Klaus Nomi is the leader of it.

— Julio Torres

The people at Cabot Guns are a rare breed of geniuses and artists in a vast gun world.

— Lexi Alexander

“Art and savagery, aesthetics and violence. Were they contradictory or symbiotic?”

— Christopher Brookmyre

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly…

— Donald Miller

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

— Richard Condon

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

— Anonymous

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

— Amy Neftzger

I think it's so fun that my art isn't centered in one sound or rooted in one lane or whatever. It's just…

— Bree Runway

I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.

— Damon Dash

“The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.”

— William S. Burroughs

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have…

— Susan Griffin

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy.

— Charles Fleischer

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we…

— John Leguizamo

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

— Marcel Duchamp

I started out as an artist, but I've always wanted to be a writer and producer.

— Teddy Geiger

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

— Raphael Saadiq

As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out…

— Alan Bean