Artist Quotes · Page 57

True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation

— Anonymous

Artists have the responsibility to serve humanity give people hope.

— Dalai Lama

I grew up as a martial artist, and I'm still a martial artist at heart.

— Scott Coker

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

— Larry Evans

It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.

— Regina Spektor

Art should not have to be a certain way,

— Willem de Kooning

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

— Meghan Trainor

The most beautiful pieces of art come from the ugliest situations.

— Andy Mineo

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

— Jessica Stockholder

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

— Susan Sontag

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

— John Chamberlain

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

— Marina Abramovic

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express…

— Andrea Bocelli

“Rock art sites were symbolic vaginas, and entry into the wall of a rock art site was thus akin to intercourse.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

— John Ruskin

A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far…

— Eric Maisel

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a…

— Jandy Nelson

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a…

— Ben Shahn

“Michelangelo’s genius was in allowing the viewer to see a great deal—in order not to show what is best left secret, except…

— Benjamin Blech

A great editor is the most valuable thing you can have as an artist because, as you said, sometimes you get too…

— Elton John

I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while…

— Joan Bauer

When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As…

— Robert Crumb

I think we need great artists making great work - women, men, whoever. I think what's great about TV now is there…

— Christina Ricci

“The truth is where the sculptor's chisel chipped away the lie.”

— They Might Be Giants

The real meaning of art lies behind it.

— Kendall Roa

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

— Edward Abbey

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

— James Turrell

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

— Henri Matisse

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

— Mason Cooley

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

— Anchee Min

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

— Lynn Collins

The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.

— Tucker Carlson

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

— Herbie Hancock

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

— W. H. Auden

“The English artist likes line more than color or texture.”

— Neville Weston

I drew this last year for art. Yay or nay?

— Aly Johnson

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

— Alex Colville