Artist Quotes · Page 221

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

— Anish Kapoor

Dada is the sun, Dada is the egg. Dada is the Police of the Police.

— Richard Huelsenbeck

The basis of art is change in the universe.

— Anonymous

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

— Francis Schaeffer

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

— Hokusai

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

— Corita Kent

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

— Anonymous

I'm a long way from being a Damien Hirst.

— Ben Eine

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

— Francois Pinault

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument...

— Carl Jung

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

— Coventry Patmore

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

— Alex Katz

I'm not going to work with a company that uses my artwork, which is precious to me, and not allow me to…

— Kesh

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.

— Walter Sickert

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be…

— Michael Connelly

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

— Yves Saint Laurent

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn,…

— Pierre Bonnard

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and…

— Lawren Harris

People are very uncomfortable when you call actors artists because there are a lot of actors out there that aren't artists -…

— Jordan Gavaris

His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole…

— Berry Gordy

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern…

— Banksy

Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or…

— Gloria Vanderbilt

I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can…

— John Williams

Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art…

— John Walford

I've been a martial artist since I was a kid. It's basically who I am.

— Dillon Danis

You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.

— Joaquin Phoenix

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

— Josef Skvorecky

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

— Albert Camus

Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

“An artist must either give up art or develop.”

— Pauline Kael

I must be the only artist whose image was hated by everybody.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

— Edvard Munch

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

— Eileen Myles

“It is the purpose of art to heighten the mystery”

— David William Richards

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

— Kary Mullis

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

— M. F. Husain

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

— Sol LeWitt

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

— Oscar Wilde

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

— Ralph Bakshi

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger