Artist Quotes · Page 443

“An artist is a performer on the canvas. A dancer with a paintbrush. A musician with the paint. A poet in each…

— Melissa Regas

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

— Peter Schjeldahl

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

— Guido Molinari

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

— Joseph Brodsky

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

— Rudolf Arnheim

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is…

— Bruce Boxleitner

The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear.

— JR

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

— Leonard Baskin

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I…

— Jimmy Smits

I don't think people were put here to be happy. I think if you decide to be an artist or a writer,…

— Jim Steranko

Although I don't believe in censorship, I believe an artist is very responsible for his actions. Especially if he's a young artist…

— Al B. Sure

Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be…

— Liu Dan

The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.…

— Asger Jorn

Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to…

— Jamie Wyeth

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a…

— Alicia Markova

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

— Oscar Wilde

I want to establish myself as a solo artist before I start to collab. Everything, for me, has to make sense.

— Caleb McLaughlin

“Mr Biffen,’ wrote another, ‘seems not to understand that a work of art must before everything else afford amusement.”

— George Gissing

I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.

— Brad Garrett

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

— Gary Wright

The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.

— Lesley Manville

“The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands,' knew Schopenhauer.”

— alain de botton

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his…

— Orhan Pamuk

I can show my characteristics and musical colors both as a member of Bigbang and as a solo artist.

— Taeyang

I'm really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right.

— Will Ferrell

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

— Salvador Dali

Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.

— Jay-Z

Did you know? That the ruler was invented by an artist, because the hardest thing to draw is a straight line.

— SdotHawkins

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in…

— Paula Scher

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

— Barry McGee

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

— Stephen Stills

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted…

— Brian McKnight

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

— Wole Soyinka

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

— Robert Adams

An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

— D. J. Enright

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

— Thomas A. Edison

“Olivia placed her paintbrush gently on the easel. Perhaps she could tiptoe out of the room and drown herself?”

— Megan Bryce

You know you have made it as an artist when you have the power to say no.

— Raftaar