Artist Quotes · Page 138

All art is very subjective and very personal...

— Milana May

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

— John Baldessari

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

— Glenn Gould

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

— Roman Genn

To be an artist that is fully original, it doesn't exist.

— John Gourley

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

— T Bone Burnett

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

— Andre Gide

Art has the power to bring people together - in communion.

— Shobana

“like the scorpion's question mark drawn in the pollen on the canvas of the sky and of our brains at midnight”

— Aimé Césaire

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.

— Eva Mendes

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it…

— James Gurney

I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that…

— Matthea Harvey

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

— Anonymous

You can only be the great artist for so long - come out with effort after effort that garners all this praise.

— Black Thought

Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.

— Frederick Hart

I hate graffiti. It's not yours - don't draw on it! Is it that hard to comprehend?

— Chad Michael Murray

Certain things you learn through exposure. It's really the elements which make up any artist. You really learn by example. You learn…

— Greg Lake

What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers.…

— Vito Acconci

“I will tell you what I believe,” he said with simplicity. “I am an artist, and I believe that art is something…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before…

— Sonu Nigam

“But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and…

— Anonymous

What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in…

— Ed Askew

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the…

— Walter Pater

Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as…

— Wynn Bullock

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

— Julia Cameron

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

— Doris Lessing

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

— Derek Bok

The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

— Cyril Connolly

I love drawing this is how I express my feelings comment thanks

— Brianna Ramos

Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

— Bill Jay

I support artistic freedom and always have.

— Neil Portnow

I didn't want to be just a Top 20 artist.

— Tricky

Everything is there: the love of Art.

— Gustave Flaubert

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

— Joseph Joubert

I think artists are interested in what people think of them.

— Logic

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

— Chaim Potok

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

— Cy Twombly

“That which is like unto itself, is drawn.”

— Esther Hicks

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

— Michelangelo

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

— Edgard Varese