Artist Quotes · Page 82

The making of art is no different than prayer.

— Rainn Wilson

If you come from art, you'll always be art.

— David Bowie

The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas.

— Nam June Paik

Kendrick Lamar is a great, great thinker. He's a tremendous artist.

— Robert Hilburn

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Art should be on the side of humanity.

— Chinua Achebe

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

— Jerry Saltz

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

— Jon Glaser

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

— Tom Stoppard

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

— Bono

At some point as an artist you have to take responsibility for everything you say.

— Naughty Boy

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.

— Jenna Wortham

My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making…

— Jackson Pollock

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

— Naum Gabo

Nirvana's amazing, but they're just never going to find another one, there's no artist development anymore, you're never going to have a…

— Richard Patrick

In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are…

— F. R. Leavis

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present…

— Linda Lavin

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that…

— Frank McCourt

“Is there such a thing as public good? That's all I'm asking. I mean, is your good the same as my good?…

— Jim Carroll

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing…

— Henry Moore

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his…

— Freya Stark

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

— Friedrich Schiller

I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.

— David Thewlis

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

— Richard Schickel

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

— William Gaddis

Really, Montrealers just love good art.

— Robby Hoffman

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

— Domenico Gnoli

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

— Virgil Abloh

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

— Flannery O'Connor

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

— Dan Butler

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

— Robert Rauschenberg

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

— Donald Barthelme

“Bren's eyes always drew me, until I found myself drawing them.”

— Anna Sheehan

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

— Anonymous

Nothing can stop an artist from creating.

— Invader

The line has almost become a work of art in itself.

— Theo van Doesburg