Artist Quotes · Page 465

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

— JR

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I…

— Jonathan Lethem

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be…

— Edward Albee

The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.

— Rachael Price

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

— Ian Buruma

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

— Rufus Wainwright

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

— Dave Holland

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who…

— Steven Pressfield

As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want…

— John Gourley

I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much planning' thing. I am…

— Priyanka Chopra

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations…

— Roy Blount, Jr

“You paint it,” he responds. “You are a specialist in darkness.” I tell him, “I didn’t live through it.” He says, “We…

— Chaim Potok

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life… The object of art is to give life…

— Jean Anouilh

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning.…

— Agnes Martin

The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of…

— Thelma Golden

Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

— Richard Artschwager

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'm kind of a firm believer that songs can have a shelf life with an artist.

— Myles Kennedy

“Any artist must simultaneously be nigh cripplingly insecure and massively egotistical.”

— Jason Erik Lundberg

“life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.”

— Oscar Wilde

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

— Ken Baumann

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

— Marilynne Robinson

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day.

— Andrew McDermott

Sometimes fame overshadows an artist's music, and we forget just how incredibly talented these people truly are.

— Elvis Duran

I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.

— Brian Blessed

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

— Umberto Boccioni

“Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.

— Jenova Chen

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

— Lawrence Durrell

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

— Bud Luckey

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the…

— John Ruskin

One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art.

— Herbert Marcuse

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

— Don DeLillo

“Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign”

— John Gardner

Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.

— DJ Khaled

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

— Art Garfunkel

“Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. — HENRI MATISSE”

— Jack Flam