Artist Quotes · Page 231

I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their…

— Charles Saatchi

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking…

— Serj Tankian

“The soul of an artist is a tortured one, forever capturing their version of reality.”

— Belinda Taylor

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

— Cate Blanchett

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just…

— George A. Sheehan

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

— Albrecht Durer

My caveman. It was going to be Abe Lincoln, but, that didn't work out. XD

— Christopher Timmerman

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it…

— Lucian Freud

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out…

— Carolee Schneemann

Artists should imprint their handwriting on the work, because if they give a piece to a fabrication studio, the craftsmen there may…

— Grayson Perry

But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further…

— Rudolf Arnheim

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms…

— Richard Prince

In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I…

— Richard Diebenkorn

I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms…

— Patti Smith

The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men…

— Joseph Campbell

One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you…

— Sally Mann

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

— Charles Baudelaire

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

— Ben Shneiderman

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

— El Greco

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

— David Bowie

“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions.”

— Nick Hornby

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist…

— Julie Doucet

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

— Michelangelo

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art…

— Margot Fonteyn

Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.

— Doug Liman

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

— Alain LeRoy Locke

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

— Rufino Tamayo

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

— Marina Abramovic

As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.

— Ashkan Kooshanejad

Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does.

— Patricia Bosworth

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

— Ad Reinhardt

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the…

— Philip Schultz

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

— Joe R. Lansdale

“...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...”

— John Geddes

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

— Hannah Gadsby

I hate working with artists who don't have something to say or when they have something that sounds cool but isn't really…

— Drumma Boy

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are…

— Paul Schrader