Artist Quotes · Page 110

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

— Glenn Gould

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

— John Baldessari

All art is very subjective and very personal...

— Milana May

Next to war, art is the greatest way to immortalize a reputation.

— Roman Genn

“Create art. Not just an art, but thermo fucking nuclear art.”

— Randy Gage

Indian artists are working with a history that's overwhelming and rich.

— David Linley

“This life is your canvas; what will you make it?”

— Jayce O'Neal

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

— Eric Maisel

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

— Marion Dane Bauer

I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

— Robert Genn

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

— Hakim Bey

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed…

— Larry Wall

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

— Yareli Arizmendi

I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner…

— Eva Hesse

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

— Lon Milo DuQuette

I get to make art at my own pace. I get to think big and move slow. There's nothing better than that.

— RaMell Ross

Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies,…

— Walter J. Phillips

“When inspiration touches talent, she gives birth to truth and beauty. And when Steven Pressfield was writing The War of Art, she…

— Steven Pressfield

I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of…

— Jose James

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“What is art? Art is tar, rearranged. Art is tar on canvas or tar on tarp or tar on a naked body.…

— Jarod Kintz

Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room.…

— Autumn de Forest

As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is…

— Zhang Xiaogang

When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner…

— DJ Spooky

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

— Lucian Freud

All any artist can do is please themselves.

— William Shatner

There are a lot of young artists that are dope.

— Keith Sweat

“Criticise privately but compliment publicly.”

— Amit Kalantri

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

— Edward Hopper

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

— H. E. Bates

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

— Marc Chagall

I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

— Roman Polanski

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.

— Mati Klarwein

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

— Giorgio Moroder

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

— James Taylor

In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

“...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.”

— J.G. Ballard

Every good painter paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock