Artist Quotes · Page 104

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

— Wayne White

Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

— Matthew Arnold

I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art.

— Trip Lee

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

— Henry Moore

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

— Charles Gwathmey

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

— Squarepusher

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

— Anonymous

To me, being real is being yourself. You know, that's whether you're a pop artist or whatever.

— Tee Grizzley

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

— Pablo Picasso

I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.

— Parker Posey

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

— Robert Genn

What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's…

— LL Cool J

My obligation as an artist is to be completely honest and to also show people themselves through me; that's my job.

— Doechii

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get…

— Kreesha Turner

Artists will always depend on the brick-and-mortar ecosystem to establish authority and context.

— Alexander Gilkes

The people, the culture... there's so much magic in Colombia, so I feel like being a kid, being able to have that,…

— Kali Uchis

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The…

— Edith Schaeffer

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of…

— Martin Filler

Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors…

— Albert Einstein

“Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece,…

— Serafima Bogomolova

I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it,…

— Phil Collins

I remember telling myself when I got to start having artist opportunities, 'Let yourself be a fan, because you are. The minute…

— Kelsea Ballerini

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people…

— Roxane Gay

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

— Jackson Pollock

Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.

— Keith Urban

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

— Paul Klee

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

— Eugene Delacroix

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

— Pablo Picasso

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

— Ned Rorem

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

— Bob Dylan

“you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul”

— john j geddes

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

— Carl Andre

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

— Steve Wozniak

“Dreams are the museum for artists.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Art is a hidden doorway that can change people's emotions.

— Akiane Kramarik

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”

— Orson Welles

“In The Past, Andy Warhol Will Be Psychic For 15 seconds”

— Dean Cavanagh

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

— Marvin Bell