Artist Quotes · Page 71

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I always wanted to become an artist who unites things.

— Sergei Polunin

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

— John Ruskin

“I am about art here, not simple reproduction.”

— David Foster Wallace

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

— Remy de Gourmont

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

— Bruce Lee

His art is the health of the artist.

— Harold Clurman

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

— Raphael Saadiq

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

— Marcel Duchamp

I started out as an artist, but I've always wanted to be a writer and producer.

— Teddy Geiger

I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

— Camille Henrot

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

— Agnes Martin

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence…

— Joseph Conrad

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

— Stephen Graham Jones

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the…

— Honore de Balzac

“the protocols of such gatherings, the sophisticated hypocrisies of supposed art lovers coming to an art show in order to ignore the…

— Paul Auster

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order…

— Jane Jacobs

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between…

— Walter Gropius

The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with…

— Ernst Junger

To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not…

— Marina Abramovic

If you see me as a controversial artist or controversial human being, then I could be cashing in on some reality shows.…

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a…

— Kehinde Wiley

Experimentation is the key to 'lively up' the art.

— Bob Marley

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.

— Govinda

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

— Marcel Proust

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

— Eudora Welty

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

— Robert Genn

“All bad art is the result of good intentions.”

— Oscar Wilde

Being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws.

— Robert Venosa

Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

— Chuck Jones

Where the material ends, art begins.

— Etienne Hajdu

“Is not one’s art made out of the struggle in one’s soul?”

— Orna Ross

“There were no sparks, just a gasoline fire burning through the dark”

— Dev

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

— Rebecca Horn

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

— Sam Francis

Art, when done well, creates empathy.

— Mary Gauthier

“My collage opens my heart to endless joy. I am an artist!”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

— Yoko Ono