Artist Quotes · Page 184

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

— John Baldessari

Without intent all painting is meaningless.

— Christopher Willard

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

— Anonymous

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

— Bruce Lee

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

— Duane Michals

When you place art in the shops, it's a way to make it more accessible.

— Maurizio Cattelan

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

— Bill Watterson

Artists aren't role models. If you want to do that, go into politics.

— Ken Jeong

Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can…

— Fred Wilson

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

— Edward Abbey

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in…

— William Hazlitt

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

— Milan Kundera

The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

— Andrew Delbanco

“She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face.”

— Amit Kalantri

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

— Sinead O'Connor

I've always enjoyed watching makeup artists - but I'd like to go to the extreme and do monster makeup in movies.

— Niki Taylor

“What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from his work? What do they expect? What is there…

— William Gaddis

An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no…

— Wim Wenders

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability…

— Brian Eno

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic…

— Jim Lee

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible…

— Orson Welles

Being on 'Idol' was an amazing experience. We had a lot of pressure to do each show, but they really helped shape…

— Adore Delano

I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute…

— Nicholas Ozeki

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that…

— Richard Paul Evans

When you're an artist, you have a platform that can reach millions.

— Demi Lovato

Who will dare say he has defined art?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,

— Gabriela Mistral

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

— Robertson Davies

The message of great art is to disturb.

— Elayne Boosler

Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.

— Eminem

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

— Orhan Pamuk

I want to be a genuine artist who has a say in what I do.

— Leah LaBelle

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

— Honore de Balzac

Every artist wants something different out the game.

— Nipsey Hussle

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

— Norman Rockwell

I had great memories as a child artist.

— Sridevi

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

— Pierre Bonnard

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

— e. e. cummings

Artistes are all motivated differently, with different experiences.

— Shobana

“It is beyond logic that we see the light.”

— Julieanne O'Connor