Artist Quotes · Page 164

The real meaning of art lies behind it.

— Kendall Roa

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

— Edward Abbey

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

— Carl Andre

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

— China Chow

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

— Pablo Casals

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

— Arnold Newman

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

— Kanye West

I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.

— Rei Kawakubo

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums,

— Banksy

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

— Pablo Picasso

“It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with he frame than with the artwork itself.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art,

— Daniel Alarcon

The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.

— Neil MacGregor

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

— John Updike

It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what…

— Angelina Jolie

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought…

— Natalie Portman

What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city…

— Jay McInerney

It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that…

— Walt Whitman

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all…

— Lady Gaga

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary…

— Paul Cezanne

“How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I think you can see the evolution of me as an artist, and just becoming confident and coming into my own and…

— Kevin McCall

I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons.…

— Mike McCready

“If it is art, it is not for all. If it is for all, it is not art.”

— Schoenberg

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted.

— Anne Hathaway

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

— Pablo Picasso

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

— Kehinde Wiley

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

— Bono

“Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist.”

— Eileen Miller

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

— James Joyce

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— James

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

— John Constable

“What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere.”

— Austin Kleon

Art means: revealing God in everything that exists.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

— Leos Carax

“But art should require no instrument but memory.”

— Paul Theroux

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

— George Santayana

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

— Novalis

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

— Michael Heizer