Artist Quotes · Page 191

“My art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.”

— Wally Lamb We Are Water

I like to paint pictures with words, 'cause I can't draw for anything.

— Iman Shumpert

Organized perception is what art is all about.

— Roy Lichtenstein

An artist should have more than two eyes.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“to every age its art; to art its freedom.”

— Anonymous

I like '4:44.' It's a good album. AY-Z's a great, great artist.

— Lonzo Ball

“If you mess up, all you have to do is paint over it.”

— Shireen Ayache

I'm not feminist, by the way. I am just an artist.

— Marina Abramovic

“The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not.”

— Tom Robbins

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

— Georges Braque

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little…

— Laurence Olivier

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good…

— Neil Gaiman

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

— Bernard Berenson

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

— Melvin Glover

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

— Richard MacDonald

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and…

— Camille Henrot

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and…

— Sarah Jones

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and…

— John Updike

Good, well-defined, well-honed art is not a foreign language. You can sell it to people. You just have to move your ego…

— Van Hunt

Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine.…

— Rudolf Steiner

When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that…

— Valerie Simpson

The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler,…

— Abraham Kuyper

I've been in this business for a long while, but it's not like I've been waiting tables. Since I started writing, I've…

— Joss Whedon

A lot of artists are such narcissists.

— Kristen Stewart

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

— Luis Bunuel

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

— Martin Ritt

“This is why I paint," he says. "To get black men into museums.”

— Jennifer Clement

It's a pain to draw different-looking humans.

— Akira Toriyama

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.

— Francisco Costa

Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before

— Imogen Heap

U.P. gives me very positive vibes as an artist.

— Hiten Tejwani

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

— Swizz Beatz

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

— Arthur Symons

The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

— Mason Cooley

“Other times, the art becomes a condition—incredibly fitting.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

— Ray Bradbury

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

— Marilyn Manson

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

— Marilyn Manson