Artist Quotes · Page 457

“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so…

— M.P. Shiel

I don't think we have to be jerks to make good art either, but somehow we as a society have romanticised that…

— Marielle Heller

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

— Pope John Paul II

“Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.”

— Eric Samuel Timm

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

— Dan Mangan

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

— Jason Blum

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

— Paul Cezanne

“Artist gets a closer look at the God. Artists possess positive and positive is another word of God.”

— RAGHUVEER MAGANTI

You have to learn how to read contracts, how to position yourself, and about marketing. That is why you find the most…

— Colm Wilkinson

Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation…

— Robert Indiana

Marginalized youth, workers, artists and others are raising serious questions about the violence of inequality and the social order that legitimates it.…

— Henry Giroux

Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly…

— John C. McGinley

In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering -…

— Laura Owens

If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we…

— Theaster Gates

“A thousand years ago Italian—or, more precisely, the Florentine dialect of the time—had no words for “art” or “artist.” Arte meant “guild,”…

— Anonymous

No matter who you are, you always want more recognition, but I'm grateful for what I do have, and I feel like…

— Paul Wall

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

— Jackson Pollock

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

— Steven Pressfield

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from…

— William Dobell

The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.

— Doris McCarthy

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

— Robert Motherwell

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way…

— Robert Henri

Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch…

— Matt Squire

I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.

— Emmet Gowin

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does,…

— Anonymous

Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.

— Joe Bonamassa

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

— Salma Hayek

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

— Walter Darby Bannard

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

— Banksy

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

— Lawren Harris

I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.

— Mohanlal

You should be able to deliver what the artist you're working with wants.

— Scott Storch

There has been a genuine willingness from many in the arts sector to try to understand people who are not within the…

— Munira Mirza

“James Montgomery Flagg emerged almost overnight as America’s preeminent poster artist. As”

— Deborah Solomon

In this artistic world, you might as well find a way to work with somebody that you have admiration for.

— Johan Renck

“The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.”

— Gustave Flaubert

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

— Camille Paglia

Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like…

— Airto Moreira

Delhi has statues and busts of so many politicians. But what about our artistes?

— Gulzar

If you don't trust your own judgment as an artist, as someone who has contributed to a work of art, then why…

— David Nutter