Artist Quotes · Page 474

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people.”

— Stefan Zweig

Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.

— Oliver Cromwell

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Like this if you think graffiti is a beautiful artwork, or Unlike this if you think graffiti is just shitty vandalism .

— Mariana

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters,…

— Paul Gauguin

It's a very satisfying feeling for everyone involved into giving bands a new life - for me, the artists, and the audience.

— Veronica Vasicka

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right…

— Eric Maisel

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have…

— Anne Truitt

The thing you can't underestimate is the true fan's intimacy. So Lady Gaga or anybody's true fan, I don't think they're going…

— Alanis Morissette

I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist…

— Steve Vai

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous,…

— Clive James

I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their…

— Michael C. McMillen

The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance…

— John French Sloan

“Introducing a great artist, Alexander Wainwright in THe Fate of Pryde. In his landscapes, Alex expresses the totality of everything in the…

— Anonymous

For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present…

— Richard P. Feynman

Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.

— David Oyelowo

Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

— Jeffrey Deitch

I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs -…

— Celia Imrie

Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.

— Matt Squire

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

— Will Durant

For me, if I saw my favorite artist in the store, I would probably just tell them three words and walk away.

— Lil Peep

Art changed my life. I mean, I would say art saved me. I believe that it made me better at handling my…

— Kimberly Peirce

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to…

— Anton Chekhov

Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!

— George Rickey

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

— Rudolf Arnheim

“The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your…

— David Bayles and Ted Orland

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be…

— Anton Chekhov

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

— Daniel Johnston

“Art is the one thing man creates not out of need or luxury; therefore, it is the purest essence of his individuality.”

— Anthony Paolucci

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a…

— Joseph Campbell

I enjoy singing but I lack the proper training to make it as a solo artist. Instead, I feel I've found my…

— Sanam Saeed

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

— Jeff Bridges

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

— Quincy Jones

That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.

— Jamila Woods

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

— Paul Cezanne

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

— Oscar Wilde

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

— Epictetus

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.

— Jennifer Young