Artist Quotes · Page 454

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify…

— Edvard Munch

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

— Seth Godin

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the…

— Asher Brown Durand

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.

— Steven Wright

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he…

— W. H. Auden

I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.

— Don Everly

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

— Oscar Wilde

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in…

— Oscar Wilde

“Archaeologists have not yet discovered any stage of human existence without art. Even in the half-light before the dawn of humanity we…

— Anonymous

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I…

— Claudia Lee

The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do…

— Phoebe Snow

I never had the sense of myself as an accomplished artist, and I always had to work three times as hard as…

— Toshiko Takaezu

I really enjoy writing lyrics, I enjoy harmonies and I enjoy hearing the organic side of production because I have to do…

— Butch Walker

Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount…

— Jerry Saltz

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a…

— Terence McKenna

I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go…

— Alison Bechdel

“We’re all artists. It’s just most people keep their inner artist locked behind their rib cage.”

— Jarod Kintz

Many artists, when they are creating art, are searching for a vehicle that can manifest a feeling they have inside of themselves.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

“I don't think there's any artist of any value that does not doubt what they're doing.”

— Francis Coppola

Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.

— Eric Maisel

Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.

— Oliver $

“Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed." -Unknown”

— Caddy Rowland

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

— Kenneth Noland

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

— Chinua Achebe

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

— Elliot W. Eisner

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

— David Rockefeller

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

— Chuck Close

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and…

— David Shrigley

“You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Being able to use art and music not just to communicate, but to have a positive effect on people, that's significant to…

— Stephen Schwartz

Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

— Joyce Carol Oates

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“You'll never end up in a museum if you spend your whole life painting fences.”

— Connor Chalfant

It shouldn't be that people think the National Gallery is just for middle-class white people.

— Munira Mirza

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

— John Updike

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also…

— Faith Ringgold

At a certain point, I had so much artwork that I decided to respect the art and present them in a nice…

— Iliza Shlesinger

Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.

— Li Shan

It just takes that one artist to take the chance to create the next wave of popular music.

— Sky Blu

The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

— Thomas Koerfer