Artist Quotes · Page 224

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

— Peter Shaffer

“A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

— Salman Rushdie

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

— Andy Warhol

I want to be a manager for new artists, get real estate.

— Lil Boosie

The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

— David Cronenberg

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.

— will.i.am

You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

— Kat Graham

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

— Michael Heizer

I wouldn't make music with you if I didn't know you. If you're a good artist, and if you know it as…

— Travis Scott

Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

— Graeme Base

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our…

— Gordon Quinn

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

— Pablo Picasso

“Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a…

— Tavares Strachan

I'd have loved to be a painter, but I'm very mercurial, so it wouldn't have worked.

— Taylor Russell

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there…

— Patrick Wilson

When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design…

— Myfanwy Pavelic

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and…

— Salman Rushdie

Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the…

— Kehinde Wiley

“Claude Monet's Water Lilies (The Clouds) consists of nothing more than dabs of different colored paint on a canvas.14 But because of…

— Christian Smith

I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do…

— Anonymous

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats.…

— Roy Lichtenstein

My mother worked as an artist until she was 96.

— Maye Musk

I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.

— Patricia Piccinini

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

— Richard Stengel

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

— Roddy Woomble

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

— David Hockney

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

— Mark Tobey

Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.

— Wu Guanzhong

To be able to create an album where you are in complete control of your own work is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for…

— Nadine Coyle

Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

— Carine Roitfeld

Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

— Marina Abramovic

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

— Ron Silver

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

— Vladimir Kramnik

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

— Louise Bourgeois

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

— George Edward Woodberry

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.”

— Philip K. Dick