Artist Quotes · Page 64

I paint or sketch for two, three hours every day. It keeps me sane.

— Vic Reeves

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

— Julia Cameron

The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.

— George Saunders

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

— Denis Diderot

I'm a painter in my dreams, you know.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Challenging is a master arts of arts

— Anonymous

The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.

— Marilyn Ferguson

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep…

— Craig Ferguson

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

— Miles Davis

Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.

— Camille Henrot

“the first things to consider when viewing a painting are the title and subject matter.”

— Kathryn Shay

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

— Viggo Mortensen

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

— Big Sean

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

— Len Wein

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

— Luis Bunuel

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could…

— Ben Eine

I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what…

— Connie Wanek

“The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the…

— William Carlos WIlliams

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used…

— Otis Blackwell

What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But…

— Marc Chagall

In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look…

— Simon de Pury

Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And…

— Gerhard Richter

Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some…

— Henri Nouwen

Being an artist is celebrating life.

— Henry Moore

Art means: revealing God in everything that exists.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

— John Constable

“What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere.”

— Austin Kleon

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— James

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

— James Joyce

“Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist.”

— Eileen Miller

“But art should require no instrument but memory.”

— Paul Theroux

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

— Leos Carax

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

— Novalis

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

— George Santayana

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

— China Chow

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

— Carl Andre

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

— Kanye West

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

— Arnold Newman