Artist Quotes · Page 463

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

— Anish Kapoor

The only way you can make change is by moving someone, making them laugh, making them cry. But art has to be…

— Sacha Dhawan

The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.

— Artur Schnabel

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

— Lucian Freud

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

— Michel de Montaigne

Everyone liked me when I went up on the stage at a talent search in elementary school, and that's when I decided…

— J-Hope

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

— Kurt Schwitters

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

— Sylvia Kristel

Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie.…

— Alex Katz

“The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative…

— Michael Richardson

[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too.…

— Jon Gordon

Make a small painting of what you want to do... and project it up on a white wall... The enlarged version is…

— Jim Rowe

Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be…

— Umberto Boccioni

“Nor did these society people add to Elstir's work in their mind's eye that temporal perspective which enabled them to like, or…

— Marcel Proust

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes…

— Rachel Kushner

“This had to be kept secret, of course, since only Catholic artists were allowed to work inside the Vatican, and especially in…

— Benjamin Blech

Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

— Don Herold

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without…

— Russell Edson

The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the…

— Jim Lee

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

— Trey Anastasio

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art,…

— Claes Oldenburg

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

— Katherine Sophie Dreier

“It is the Master of Self who is the masterpiece; the life lived is the canvas that reveals the Master's great works.”

— Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

Jalen Hurts is a top-notch quarterback, decision-maker, leader, passer, escape artist.

— Mike Tomlin

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

— William Blake

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what…

— Robert Hass

I have finally completed painting our bedroom! So many walls, so much ceiling! Now eating pizza and watching 'The Big Lebowski'. Delightful.

— Alison Pill

The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

— Helen Vendler

I'm an artist, I paint on a smile. I'm an actress, I hold back the tears. I'm a doctor, trying to fix…

— Anonymous

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

— Peter Weiss

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

That's kind of the artist I like to be, transparent, honest. I think that's what I'm like in real life.

— Raye

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.

— Martin Heidegger

You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.

— Lena Waithe

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man…

— Aleister Crowley

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

— Jean Dubuffet

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

— Toni Morrison

I was a very insecure, self-conscious kid, and as an artist even more so.

— Eugene Lee Yang

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

— Tawfiq al-Hakim