Artist Quotes · Page 129

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

— Joseph Campbell

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

— John Constable

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

— Charles Bukowski

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

— Sam Kean

Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

— e. e. cummings

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

— Charles Baudelaire

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.

— Shahzia Sikander

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

— Oscar Wilde

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

— Harry Belafonte

Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way…

— Sarah Curran

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

— Kehinde Wiley

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Anyone who asks if graffiti is really art should be cast out into a field, because they're Neanderthals.

— Goldie

I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.

— Julianne Hough

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

— Shepard Fairey

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that…

— David S. Goyer

Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why…

— Charles Saatchi

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else.…

— Ai Weiwei

“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a…

— Anonymous

As an artist when you come into [hip hop] you don't know nothing really. You just know what you do and it's…

— Mic Geronimo

In Mexico, muralism is an important part of the artistic vocabulary, and it has a very different place than it does in…

— Chris Kraus

The idea of the culture that you live in determining meaning in your art, though, is a very important aspect of what…

— Robert Barry

“Use your own paint; colour your world”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Art is an experience, not an object.

— Robert Motherwell

I feel like we have to fight for art.

— Jeremy Scott

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

— Ezra Pound

Cecil Beaton was Andy Warhol before Andy Warhol, really.

— Giles Deacon

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

— Helen McCrory

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

— Andrew Loomis

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

— Herbert Read

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

— Ali Smith

I felt like people weren't going to accept me as a pop artist.

— Hayley Kiyoko

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

— Stanislaw Lem

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

— Lori Lansens

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

— Anonymous

The art of your existence is living.

— Ruben Papian

An artist does not have the privilage of being logical.

— Boaz Zippor