Artist Quotes · Page 183

“The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.”

— Simon Reynolds

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

— Ruth Asawa

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

— Bill Johnson

A truly great artist has many talents.

— Rick Riordan

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

— Harold Rosenberg

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

— Marina Abramovic

I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.

— Wassily Kandinsky

“...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.”

— Amy Tan

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered…

— Susan Glaspell

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because…

— Kiki Smith

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“An artist is ultimately remembered for creating an uncompromised body of work. Uncompromised, unfettered and fiercely passionate.”

— Nidhie sharma

One of the best feelings that I've experienced is being surrounded by artists and thinkers who inspire you.

— Fred Hechinger

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

— John Langdon

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

— Ali Smith

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

— Jock Sturges

The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in…

— Jacques Barzun

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the…

— Sarah Kay

I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and…

— Barbara Chase-Riboud

“As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is…

— Boris Pasternak

“Art school?” He gave me a pointed look. “Charlotte, getting a master’s degree in art is like telling the universe that you…

— Whitney G

The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our…

— John A. Keel

I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort…

— Barbara Rosenblat

“Unfortunately life has a way of sidetracking one’s greatest ambitions. Painters, would-be artists, end up whitewashing walls. Sculptors are forced to design…

— Salman Rushdie

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

— Daniel Bell

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

— Danai Gurira

All that matters on the stage is good art.

— Jerzy Jeszke

You just have to do your art. Nothing can stop you.

— Robert Zemeckis

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

— Marcel Proust

“Whatever you do in life, you can always do it in an artistic way!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Economy is essential to all good art.

— Jerry Seinfeld

The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.

— Toni Onley

All things considered, there is only Matisse.

— Pablo Picasso

You get to be your own curator of your own exhibits inside.

— Regina Spektor

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist].

— Alexey Brodovitch

“Inking is meditation in liquid form...”

— J.H. Everett

“The spirit of an artist's gifts can wake our own.”

— Lewis Hyde "The Gift

When I became sober, I was 27 and struggling as an artist.

— Shawn Colvin

I serve with my art and creativity. That makes me most happy.

— Misty Upham