Artist Quotes · Page 195

Sometimes art helps illuminate science.

— Faith Salie

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

— Alexander McCall Smith

“When you realise the circle is a circle, you can understand art”

— Greta Bellamacina

I always said God was against art and I still believe it.

— Edward Elgar

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

— Richard MacDonald

The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.

— Samuel

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

— Maurice Denis

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

— Niki de St. Phalle

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

— Frank Zappa

I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.

— Johan Renck

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

— Alan Moore

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

— Scilla Elworthy

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

— Quentin S. Crisp

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

— Drake

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and…

— Asger Jorn

On 'Idol,' you have to show off your vocal abilities, so I stuck to the ballads, so I'm glad my first single…

— Jessica Sanchez

That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality,…

— Afeni Shakur

It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only…

— Rudolf Steiner

“Anything can be art: painting stairs, raising a child, or organising a trip to the end of the world. It's the way…

— Mykyta Isagulov

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll…

— Martin Parr

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter…

— Ben Shahn

When Allen Ginsberg was still alive, he was was an artist, but he was very local. He was just another wing-nut in…

— Eric Drooker

The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes…

— Audrey Niffenegger

Art is like ham-it nourishes people.

— Diego Rivera

First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being.

— Janelle Monae

“Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

— Ovid

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

— Patti Smith

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

— Sam Lipsyte

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Art should be for sale. The artist should not.”

— A.E. Samaan

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

— Lyman Abbott

Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.

— Banks

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

— August Wilson

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

— Patti Smith

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

— Nikki Sixx

It's not always about huge giant commercial success. It's about art.

— Steve Miller

The artist after all is a solitary being.

— Virginia Woolf