Artist Quotes · Page 180

The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry.

— William Bernbach

Love is ART; ART is love. BUT whoz a part oof it...?

— Kevin D'cruz

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist.

— Clarice Cliff

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

— John Dyer

Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

— John French Sloan

“Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.”

— Pierre Bayard

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

— Henri Matisse

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way

— David Hockney

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to…

— Don Henley

New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.

— Brad Holland

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.

— Swizz Beatz

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

— Michael Craig-Martin

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

— Richard Artschwager

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

— Henry Flynt

He didn't see me looking at him, but I could tell the ceremony was having the same effect on him. He was…

— Richelle Mead

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people…

— Tino Sehgal

I love being a mommy, and I love being an artist, and I love being a singer and an actress and making…

— Melora Hardin

As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on…

— Adrian Younge

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I promised myself as a kid that I would not become that guy. So I have my finger on the pulse of…

— Shane Bunting

I think I'm pretty regular. I try to keep it pretty regular; I go to sleep early. I don't know what distances…

— Vince Staples

Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and…

— Eva Simons

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

— Anonymous

An artist works through exposed wounds.

— Dennis Oppenheim

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.

— Ben Eine

I enjoy voicing even though I am not a voice-over artist.

— Javed Jaffrey

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

— Christian Bale

You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.

— Joyce DiDonato

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

— Marcel Duchamp

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

— Wendy Beckett

I'm not a singles artist - I never have been.

— The-Dream

When life sucks, throw yourself into art.

— Monica Drake

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.

— Paul Virilio

We only have our nervous system to paint.

— Francis Bacon

As an artist you always want to evolve and you always want to grow.

— Erika Jayne

The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

— William Lyon Phelps

Understanding is an art...not everyone is an artist.

— Asli