Artist Quotes · Page 253

Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.

— Devendra Banhart

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

— Ice T

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

— Wayne Thiebaud

I think 'Hamilton' has made me look at myself deeper as an artist and what I'm looking for as an artist.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

— Richard B. Garnett

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a…

— Christopher Lasch

A cartoonist's style is created by weaknesses and personal restrictions as much as strengths.

— Barry Blitt

I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you…

— Steve Kazee

I always have a plan, but it’s like the plan for a journey. Once you’re on the road, you change things. If…

— Ernesto Neto

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my…

— David Bowie

I see myself as a very eclectic person and artist. I use all kinds of sources for the work as maybe some…

— Michael C. McMillen

One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the…

— Twyla Tharp

There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can…

— Russell Page

Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but…

— Sam Smith

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

— Jerry Saltz

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And…

— Larry Sanders

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without…

— John French Sloan

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

— Oscar Wilde

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and…

— Jack Kirby

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

— Hugh Walpole

It wasn't a conscious decision to be bold or anything. It all depends on how different artists envision me.

— Amrita Rao

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm reclusive when it comes to me giving art away because I get real sensitive about that and critiques.

— J.I.D

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits…

— Olafur Eliasson

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

— Woody Allen

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

— Anton Chekhov

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

— Nicole Krauss

If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.

— Arshile Gorky

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

— Arthur Miller

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

— Matthew Collings

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

— John Locke

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able…

— Jan Brett

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and…

— Erich Fromm

I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people.

— Neal Adams

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

— M. Shadows

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

— David Mamet

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

— Vikas Swarup