Artist Quotes · Page 124

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

— Harry Greb

There is no other artist who I admire and love as much as I love Bjork.

— Kerli

Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

— Toni Morrison

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

— Laozi

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

— Jean Cocteau

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

— Dolly Parton

I want to leave behind paintings and sculptures that can inspire someone.

— Janelle Monae

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Painting imparts new wings And my mind soars high; Imagination glitters the alleys of my mind And I fly, fly, fly...”

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel...

— John Burroughs

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

— Helmut Jahn

We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.

— Massimo Bottura

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

— Joe Bradley

That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.

— Karyn Kusama

I literally make music for my wife and my friends. I don't feel beholden to my fans. I don't even really know…

— Ben Lee

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world…

— Albert Camus

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am…

— Anish Kapoor

All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here…

— Chris Martin

When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it…

— Yasmine Hamdan

When I was 14-15 years old I was able to earn a little money from time to time but I'm not complaining…

— Richard Clayderman

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way…

— Squeak Carnwath

Art is doing something you really believe in.

— Ray Toro

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

— Natalia Makarova

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

— Grandma Moses

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

— Carol P. Christ

“Monet was a radical before he was a calendar.”

— Anne Jamison

Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car.

— Paul Virilio

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

— Salvador Dali

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

— Naum Gabo

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

— Alexander Stoddart

An artist's love for what they create is what creates love.

— Sheila Heti

Art is living stopped for a moment of wonder.

— Kenneth G. Mills

“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't.”

— Craig Damrauer

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

— Mark Twain

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

— Joni Mitchell

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

— Eric Gill

Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

— Li Shan