Artist Quotes · Page 485

If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached.

— Gerald Stern

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

— Karsten Harries

I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

— Noel Gallagher

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

— Nicki Minaj

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

— Henri Matisse

“All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

— A. S. Byatt

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Why is this…

— Steven Pressfield

They say that art comes from the soul. The more drama in an artist's life, the more he can draw on for…

— Robin Leach

“The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and…

— Joanna Russ

Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape.…

— Chantal Kreviazuk

It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art,…

— Helen Levitt

I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing (jaillissante) or exhausted (épuisée) life. But an…

— Gilles Deleuze

Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to…

— Arthur Davison Ficke

“Art doesn’t bare itself to just anyone, but to believers called artists.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.

— Sean Stone

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't see a future in music unless you are one of the 5pc of massive artists.

— Paul Young

“by Picasso: ‘Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up.”

— Jandy Nelson

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

— Mordicai Gerstein

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Anytime you have a fellow artist say, 'Loving the new Luke Bryan album,' that's awesome.

— Luke Bryan

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until…

— Raoul Dufy

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

— Paul Cezanne

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

— William S. Burroughs

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do…

— Carrie Brownstein

“Plique-à-jour, which means “windows of light,” is one of the most stunning and difficult enameling techniques.”

— Lee Nichols

In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

— Robert Genn

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

— Bruce Lee

Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

— Danger Mouse

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you…

— Clementine Hunter

One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite…

— Eugene Souleiman

“She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.”

— Jonathan Franzen

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

— Ben Nicholson

Just because I'm an artist doesn't mean I should be treated differently.

— Melanie Martinez

Life is like art done in chalk, beautiful but temporary, enjoy it while possible.

— The Forgotten

This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into…

— Ai Weiwei