Artist Quotes · Page 94

An artist should be as impartial as God.

— Wyndham Lewis

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

— Julie Taymor

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everything, everything, everything can be installation art”

— Sherman Alexie

“Would you paint if you knew you were painting only for Me?”

— Tamera Alexander

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

— Leopold Sedar Senghor

A new recent drawing of mates little girl Ivy, grown up so quick

— Ash Sweeney

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

— Romain Rolland

Over the years, El Perro del Mar became this artist that, every record that came out, I just loved it.

— Fred Armisen

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.

— Dogen

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

— Agnes de Mille

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

— Bertolt Brecht

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

— J. D. Salinger

I think the best way I've grown as an artist period, not just in relation to creating music, is having a lot…

— Jinkx Monsoon

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

— Brian Eno

Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.

— Roy Lichtenstein

The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an…

— Max Delbruck

I drew when I was very, very young. My mom kept stuff I drew when I was 2 and a half years…

— Dan Povenmire

The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about…

— George Grosz

When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded…

— Robert Indiana

School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a…

— Lainie Kazan

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,…

— Oscar Wilde

I had my first exhibition in September, 2012. This was when I first introduced the public to my style of the incorporation…

— St. Lucia

Being an indie artist, you have to fight for position against a major.

— Raheem DeVaughn

Where there is no heart there is no art.

— Anna Pavlova

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

— Helen Hayes

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted.

— Shakespeare (Sonnet XX

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.

— Ben Shahn

Dr. Dre is the most influential artist and producer in hip-hop history.

— Jalen Rose

I painted sets before I ever performed.

— Christopher Guest

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

— Henri Matisse

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

— Frans de Waal

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

— Paul Robeson

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

— Whoopi Goldberg

Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists.

— Lawrence Jackson

You should draw me as a cartoon as a cartoon, say hello.

— Dot Dot Curve

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself.

— Vic Mensa