Artist Quotes · Page 27

I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the…

— Nancy Spero

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

— John French Sloan

As long as you carry your makeup like you got it done by the biggest celebrity make artist, then everyone will see…

— Bretman Rock

Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't…

— Wale

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

— Anthony Burgess

Sometimes I don't think that I'm the most relatable female artist.

— Tones and I

There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like…

— John Berger

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a stability in being a side person that can be kind of dangerous if you also want to be an artist…

— Amanda Shires

For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the…

— Larry Gagosian

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

— Clement Greenberg

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

— Abderrahmane Sissako

I think we need great artists making great work - women, men, whoever. I think what's great about TV now is there…

— Christina Ricci

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

— Chinua Achebe

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an…

— Roland Barthes

[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little…

— Peggy Guggenheim

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in…

— Eric Maisel

For me, when we came out with a TV show, my HBO show, so much of the feedback was, "How do I…

— Casey Neistat

I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark.…

— RM

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving…

— George Saintsbury

There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of…

— Mark Matousek

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

— Langston Hughes

It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them…

— Alton Tobey

I've worked with a hundred of the biggest artists in the world, from Madonna to Mariah Carey, and he [Michael Jackson] is…

— Brett Ratner