Artist Quotes · Page 85

“Artists see the invisible before anyone else.”

— Donna Goddard

Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.

— Ziad Doueiri

Whenever I am sad, I paint, I do that whenever I am happy too.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

We must have belief in BAME artists and have total trust in their work.

— Paterson Joseph

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

— David Bayles

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

— Michael Bastian

By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.

— Kazimir Malevich

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

— Egon Schiele

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

— Anais Nin

What I don't like is when people feel like they can box an artist into who they think an artist should be.

— Saweetie

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

— Marina and the Diamonds

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it…

— Tim Curry

In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

— Thomas A. Edison

One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or…

— Lee Krasner

I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a…

— Nicole Beharie

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with…

— Bertolt Brecht

We are providing a platform to creators who are expressing their emotions; they are expressing what they are feeling - fears, joys,…

— Dana Walden

What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A…

— Henri Matisse

“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change…

— Leonard Bernstein

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the…

— Jean M. Auel

As an artist I'm very aware of what I call Picasso-napkin syndrome - I've got this 20th century version of the midas…

— Grayson Perry

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

— Paul Cezanne

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

— William Hogarth

Art makes people smile, brings people together.

— Yusaku Maezawa

A true artist is always out of his time.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

You bring to a painting your own experience.

— Jacob Lawrence

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

— Claude Monet

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

— Robert Holden

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

— John Ruskin

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

— Paul Cezanne

If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago,

— Yayoi Kusama

Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.

— Mika

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

— William Hazlitt

It's not easy to stand out as a young artist.

— Chris Lane

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.

— Joni Mitchell

The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

— Rula Jebreal

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

— Nadia Boulanger