Artist Quotes · Page 155

To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.

— Hans Hofmann

“In art, the present is the eternal.”

— Kakuzo Okakura

“The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him.”

— Dan Brown

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

— John Ashbery

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

— Washington Allston

I'm going to die unhappy. That's how artists roll!

— Iliza Shlesinger

Only a sad man can be a good artist.

— IndraneeL

Art is a delivery system for worldviews.

— Alex Grey

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

— Francisco Costa

Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.

— Steve Ilg

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

— Salvador Dali

My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.

— John Prine

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

— Damien Hirst

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of…

— Gus Van Sant

Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

— Walter Darby Bannard

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

— Bridget Riley

“So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose…

— Prestel Publishing

“The vision is rather of the artist, as physical and embodied, set in the midst of a God-given world vibrant with a…

— Jeremy Begbie

Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word…

— Chris Mars

I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd…

— Jack Kirby

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;…

— Harper Lee

“I am no sort of art expert. I have only been to the Whitney once before, on a previous business visit that…

— Michael Perry

“Certainly the anonymous scarecrow portrait was intended to put him in his place, in much the same way as the philosopher David…

— Chinua Achebe

When a lot of people think about how to be business-savvy as an artist, they think about how to brand themselves. At…

— Soccer Mommy

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

— William Hazlitt

“All artist of some measure contemplative.”

— Evelyn Underhill

The most famous living artist in America is Andy Warhol, unfortunately.

— John Heilpern

“ Let Art be your weapon, and you would never be defeated.”

— Bam Zakariya

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

— Louis C. K

I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers,

— Janis Joplin

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

— Damian Loeb

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

— Mike Svob

The artist is the antenna of the race.

— Ezra Pound

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

— Gunter Grass

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

— Robert Henri

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

— Irving Stone

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

— Marcel Duchamp

Why is the industry engineered to keep the artists in debt?

— Jadakiss

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

— Pablo Picasso