Artist Quotes · Page 247

“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”

— Anonymous

“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and…

— James Thurber

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a…

— Gore Vidal

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

— Christina Aguilera

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

— Eric Maisel

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was…

— Signe Baumane

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

— Abbi Jacobson

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I…

— Angela Cartwright

Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent…

— Eric Fischl

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was…

— Anne Hathaway

Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will…

— Maurizio Cattelan

Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely…

— Max Ernst

On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that…

— David Bowie

“Saku's figure before me looked like a morning glory drawn with one stroke of the brush. My only regret was that the…

— Sōseki Natsume

You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the…

— Pete Docter

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way…

— Sergio Aragones

I'm comfortable in general - not just comfortable as an artist, but in my skin.

— Kodie Shane

“The very idea of Palaeolithic art was deeply disturbing. Was not art one of the great achievements of high civilizations?”

— James David Lewis-Williams

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I want to make decisions as to where I want to go as an artist, and to get to it in my…

— David Archuleta

I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.

— James L. Dolan

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

— Herbert Marcuse

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

— Robert Barry

My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put…

— Sherilyn Fenn

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

— Robert Schumann

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

— Tom Robbins

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship…

— Henri Matisse

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

— Carlisle Floyd

Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that…

— Carl Gardner

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

— Rita Mae Brown

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I…

— Robin Thicke

“remember that art is as vital as food to a kingdom. Without it, a kingdom is nothing, and will be forgotten by…

— Sarah J. Maas

There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.

— Willard Wigan

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

— Daniel H. Pink

“Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and…

— Jim Morrison

For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be…

— Trevor Paglen

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

— Robert Henri

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

— Oscar Wilde

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

— Robert Barry