Artist Quotes · Page 119

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

— Charles Simic

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

— Friedrich Schiller

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

— Margaret Atwood

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

Why do you think my name is Artist? I'm an artist.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

“If you don’t learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!!!”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not…

— Mark Duplass

I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it…

— Kaskade

If you start as a Christian artist trying to be mainstream, you're done from the beginning.

— Kirk Franklin

When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great…

— Igor Babailov

My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.

— Robert Ingpen

I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

— Mary Gordon

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

— Eddie Murphy

I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever…

— Grace Gealey

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So…

— Ally Carter

As an artist development platform, we've proven that all the work done behind the scenes at American Idol, along with surviving the…

— Scott Borchetta

The really cool thing about reggae music is that I can get away with saying spiritual things as a reggae influenced artist…

— Dominic Balli

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the…

— Jeanette Winterson

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what…

— Northrop Frye

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs…

— Anne Waldman

“To a very strange lizard, found by the gardener of the Belvedere, he [Leonardo] fastened some wings with a mixture of quicksilver…

— Girogio Vasari

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

— Poul Henningsen

You could say science also is an art.

— Freeman Dyson

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

— Pablo Picasso

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

— Mos Def

I really am in love with the idea of an artistic signature.

— Porter Robinson

“STUDY IN SCARLET (ILLUSTRATED COLLECTOR’S”

— Rex Stout

I am an artist and a political being as well.

— Robin Morgan

The art of love is best known by a free thinker.

— Simon Quperlier

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

— El Greco

“All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.”

— Susan Sontag

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

— Paul Reubens

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

— Hannah Arendt

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

— Toni Onley

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

— Emile Zola

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form

— Bruce Lee