Artist Quotes · Page 106

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

— Thomas Kinkade

I'm a bad artist. I'm lazy and untalented and bad.

— Lisa Hanawalt

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

— Orson Welles

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

— James Turrell

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

— Twyla Tharp

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

— Svetlana Alexievich

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

— Kimon Nicolaides

The more minimal art, the more maximum the explaination.

— Hilton Kramer

Half your battle is won when the writing is good, and then you as an artist bring your personality into it.

— Abhay Deol

“A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.”

— George Saunders

Acknowledgement and recognition from authoritative quarters are important to every artiste.

— Sridevi

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

— Albert Camus

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

— David Furnish

An artist's life is to lead and not to follow and you have to take those chances.

— Neha Bhasin

“Art is like fruit, and every tree is known by its fruit. Fruit reveals a lot about the tree from which it…

— Anonymous

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

— Constantin Brancusi

Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something.…

— Patrick Stump

I want be an entertainer that doesn't just work in one specific field, but a variety of things. If I become an…

— Min

For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think…

— Bill Plympton

“The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks,…

— Frank Miller

I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the…

— Yves Klein

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does…

— Max Ernst

“And later in the letter, he elaborated further, "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and…

— Siri Hustvedt

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

— Henry Moore

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.

— Joss Whedon

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

— Hideo Kojima

“That wasn't political," she said. "He's a performance artist.”

— James S.A. Corey

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

— Andy Warhol

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

— Jock Sturges

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

— Antoni Tapies

Art is socialism but life is capitalism.

— Mike Birbiglia

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

— Carrie Mae Weems

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

— John Keats

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

— Joseph Trapanese

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

— Stephen Greenblatt

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

— Henry Adams

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

— Anonymous

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

— Mary Ruefle