Artist Quotes · Page 489

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

— Maurice Chevalier

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

— Katharine Hepburn

“She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.”

— Anne Brontë

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

— Conor Oberst

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

— Rudolf Bing

In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be an artist in another time. I need to exist in a time where high…

— David Berman

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should…

— Philip Pearlstein

I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker.

— Jenna Wortham

I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in…

— Susan Stroman

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit…

— Lola Kirke

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities…

— Alberto Giacometti

I struggle with arrangements. I take forever doing them. It gets to a point where I've been playing around with things on…

— Bonobo

If you connect with an artist because of what they make as a body of work, you feel like they're your friend.…

— Lauren Jauregui

I think some of the most beneficial things being an artist has brought to me in film is just you're not afraid…

— Common

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and…

— Albert Camus

I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which…

— Robert Barry

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.

— Calvin Seerveld

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

— Robert Dessaix

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

— Robert Redford

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

— Eric Maisel

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

— Seneca the Younger

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

— George Santayana

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

As a mature character artist I thoroughly enjoyed working with the enthusiastic, childlike Salman Khan.

— Vinod Khanna

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?

— Beatrix Farrand

“A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.”

— Irving Stone

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

— Dionne Warwick

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is…

— Patti Smith

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had…

— Anonymous

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

— Donald Judd

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

— Dee Dee Ramone

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

— Julian Schnabel

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

— Austin Kleon

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

— Jack White

“The artist’s secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.”

— Hugo Ball

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

— Chuck Close

“An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

— Joyce Carol Oates

There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our…

— Carrie Coon