Artist Quotes · Page 208

Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.

— Nietzsche

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

It is ultimately character that underwrites art.

— Anne Truitt

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

— Andres Serrano

“I can create my imagination because i am an Artist.!”

— Manish Suthar

I think it is your job as an artist to be able to hear a song.

— Keifer Thompson

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.

— Theophilus London

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

— Clive Bell

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.

— Timothy Morton

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

— George Sand

I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still.

— Kevyn Aucoin

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

— Mike Thompson

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and…

— Jessye Norman

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be…

— Miley Cyrus

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

I think that the music that I listened to turned me into the artist that I am.

— Scarface

Nothing will enrich your life as much as the appreciation of art. If you want to 'Live Rich', you have to -…

— Mark M. Ford

“The unconventional is dangerous at times, but we must...splash our personal canvasses with bold strokes and daring colors and give no thought…

— Asim Khan

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused…

— William Morris Hunt

“All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” she declares. “What are these people talking about? Are you really telling me that Shakespeare…

— Toni Morrison

“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to ... I found that I…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka'…

— Joseph Plaskett

In my paintings, the question on whether figures are similar or not is not of any importance, the slightest change of figure…

— Guity Novin

works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which…

— Rebecca West

Art penetrates, no matter how many bans you put out.

— Mawra Hocane

I've been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school.

— Martin Mull

Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

— Waldo Salt

“You have to be an artist and a madman...”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I'm just a manga artist, so I can't stand being scrutinized.

— Akira Toriyama

Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

— Mirka Mora

“Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]”

— Michel de Montaigne

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

— Doug Stanhope

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

— Paul Cezanne

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

— Auguste Rodin

“THE one measure of worth is the art one inspired.”

— Brian S Woods

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

— Robert Hughes

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

— Rene Magritte

All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self.

— Hisham Matar

My wife is the expert, but I like art particularly. I like Van Gogh.

— Claudio Ranieri

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

— Wendy Beckett