Artist Quotes · Page 144

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

— Willow Smith

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

— Walter Annenberg

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

— William Baziotes

Artists are the radical voice of civilization.

— Paul Robeson

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

— Virginia Woolf

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

— George Eliot

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

— Ray Davies

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

— Brian McKnight

I've probably represented almost every major artist in the world, either directly or peripherally, at one time or another.

— Jerry Heller

It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to…

— Trevor Paglen

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is…

— George Duke

In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.

— John Dyer Baizley

“Life is art, though our styles and colors vary we all have a master piece.”

— Zachary Koukol

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

— Amy Poehler

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

— Jim Harrison

James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg are the ideal guys to adapt 'The Disaster Artist.'

— Greg Sestero

The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me…

— Sam Smith

“I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself…

— Lepota L. Cosmo

One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from…

— Vincent Price

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument,…

— Robertson Davies

I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet…

— Randall Jarrell

It's hard being a woman in this industry, period. A lot of the time, guys make you feel like you need to…

— Chanel West Coast

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

— Anish Kapoor

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist,

— Brian K. Vaughan

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

— John Baldessari

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

— St. Lucia

I paint because it hurts not to. Pain is in the word painting.

— Marta Gottfried

The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.

— John Lennon

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

— Ross Bleckner

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

— Anonymous

Getting in the paint is one of my keys.

— Luka Doncic

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

— Anne Jackson

I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging.

— Kali Uchis

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

— Joanna Russ

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception,

— John Maeda

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

— Georg Baselitz

“Jesus, you get sentimental when you're high on paint fumes.”

— Lisa Kleypas

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

— Joseph Campbell