Artist Quotes · Page 178

“Monet was a radical before he was a calendar.”

— Anne Jamison

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

— Carol P. Christ

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

— Grandma Moses

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

— Natalia Makarova

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

— Alexander Stoddart

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

— Naum Gabo

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

— Salvador Dali

Art is living stopped for a moment of wonder.

— Kenneth G. Mills

The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.

— Naomi Alderman

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

— Scott McCloud

“It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides…

— Anthony Liccione

Creating art is like being sick - you bring up all your innermost thoughts, and then you have to ask yourself why…

— Goldie

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in…

— Hendrik Willem Van Loon

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is…

— Albrecht Durer

“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE”

— Oscar Wilde

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures…

— Channing Dungey

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart,…

— Anonymous

I've worn pretty much every hat in the beauty industry, from blogger to makeup artist to YouTube influencer to Instagram influencer to…

— Huda Kattan

The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play,…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the…

— Mike Leigh

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let…

— Jermaine Dupri

Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom,…

— Gil Evans

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I…

— David Bowie

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do.…

— Josef Albers

An artist's love for what they create is what creates love.

— Sheila Heti

“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't.”

— Craig Damrauer

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

— Mark Twain

There is no other artist who I admire and love as much as I love Bjork.

— Kerli

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

— Harry Greb

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

— Toni Morrison

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

— Laozi

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

— Jean Cocteau

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

— Albert Camus

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

— Honore de Balzac

I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box.

— Little Simz

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

— Hippocrates

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

— Ben Okri