Artist Quotes · Page 239

As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

— Jason Silva

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good,…

— John Wayne

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

— Andy Warhol

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.

— Bill Luff

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

— Lewis Mumford

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your…

— Rick Jarow

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous…

— Rainn Wilson

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants…

— Clive James

For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the…

— Harold Rosenberg

It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on…

— Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

“On September 2, 2011, the bronze statue for the dial-painters was unveiled by the governor in Ottawa, Illinois. It is a statue…

— Kate Moore

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in…

— Kehinde Wiley

“The light of artistic creation is also blinding. The artist can’t see the suffering he causes to those around him. And the’ll…

— Ian McEwan

Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without…

— Georg Baselitz

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

— Kiki Smith

It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

— Isadora Duncan

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I learned how to incorporate heirloom furniture, artwork and objects d'art to work with exciting new contemporary pieces.

— Hilary Farr

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

— Jerry Saltz

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

— Damien Hirst

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

— Jessica Alba

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

— Maxfield Parrish

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

— Timothy Keller

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

— Chuck Jones

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

— John Berger

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension…

— Virginia Woolf

I want to be the most melodic artist. 'His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.' I want people…

— Future

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

— Eli Siegel

From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

“We create art for many reasons—wealth, fame, love, admiration—but I find the one thing that produces the best results is desire.”

— Francesca Zappia

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in…

— Henry Miller

Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

— Yayoi Kusama

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

— Leopold Stokowski

My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.

— Beth Macy

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question…

— e. e. cummings

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

— George Orwell