Artist Quotes · Page 254

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the…

— Dennis Quaid

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on…

— Claes Oldenburg

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow…

— Andre Gide

I fight for whatever I believe in! I've learned to trust myself. I went from a being a rapper to an artist.

— Tierra Whack

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

— Walter Gropius

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

— Steve Earle

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

— Franz Marc

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut

In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once…

— Roger Scruton

Greeks and gods on the lawn, on the estate. Versace couches, sandals, candles, and matching plates. This picture's better than Basquiat's greatest…

— Rick Ross

“Now observe; if the artist does not understand the sacredness of the truth of Impression, and supposes that, once quitting hold of…

— John Ruskin

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on…

— Susan Rothenberg

I think the Internet has hurt music more than it has helped it. The idea of giving music away for free just…

— Steve Mahoney

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who…

— Martin Filler

Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an…

— Loren Gray

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves,…

— Henri Bergson

Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.

— Hetti Perkins

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

— Jean Cocteau

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm a firm believer in that there are MCs and there are artists. I love' em both.

— Kurupt

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem…

— Kelly Clarkson

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

— Jean Rostand

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

— Damien Hirst

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

— Sigourney Weaver

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

— Austin O'Malley

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way…

— Jackson Pollock

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

— Thomas Eakins

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small…

— Laurie Anderson

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

— Donald Judd

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams.”

— Salomon Grimberg

That's the thing about being an artist: you never should settle, really.

— Ross Lynch

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

— Maria Semple

Someone spilled the ink on the canvas. Now boasts: "I painted the night".

— Rabindranath Tagore

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

— Scott Kahn

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

— Edmund Wilson

“Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.”

— Liz Rideal

I paint on and off, not very regularly. But since I was in school, I had an inclination for it.

— Bhumika Chawla