Artist Quotes · Page 469

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

— Kenneth Clark

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

— Steven Soderbergh

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of…

— Maria Callas

I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been…

— Sevyn Streeter

I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

— Elisabeth Hasselbeck

“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”

— Jessie Fothergill

All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

— Erykah Badu

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit…

— Annie Dillard

Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because…

— Donald Knuth

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and…

— Charles Saatchi

If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of…

— Nicholas of Cusa

One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the…

— Criss Angel

Babymetal's music is something that no artist has attempted in the past, uniting people as one by crossing language barriers and national…

— Suzuka Nakamoto

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed…

— Thomas Mann

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things…

— Erik Erikson

O.P.N. has always been about reaching for some kind of liminal state in which opposing aesthetic forces become entangled and confused and…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

— Eric Fischl

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

— Huston Smith

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

— William Butler Yeats

I hope to make the process of producing my take of the Biennial a transparent and interesting one for artists.

— Michelle Grabner

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?

— William S. Burroughs

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

— Nigel Cooke

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

— Richard P. Feynman

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

— Ad Reinhardt

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers,…

— Eva Zeisel

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

— Liz Phair

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

— Robert Browning

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

— Joan Miro

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

— Shahzia Sikander

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

— Michelangelo

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

— Henry James

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

— Rex Brandt

The more you look at great art of any kind, you'll see that there's this thread running through all of it.

— Chris Thile

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

— Anais Nin

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water…

— W. Somerset Maugham

What I don't like is when people feel like they can box an artist into who they think an artist should be.

— Saweetie

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

— Marina and the Diamonds

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it…

— Tim Curry