Artist Quotes · Page 260

When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to…

— No I.D

I've argued for a much less instrumentalist politicized approach, freeing up the arts and enabling them to deliver high-quality projects.

— Munira Mirza

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to…

— Immortal Technique

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

— Jane Seymour

The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion,

— George Inness

If people looked at me like I was a little different, I would maybe sit next to them, and I would draw.

— Kehinde Wiley

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

— Billy Corgan

I am an artist who is ready to grab interesting roles that comes my way.

— Vijay Sethupathi

The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human…

— Karel Appel

“It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed…

— Susan Quinn

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong,…

— Studs Terkel

“Have you ever considered, bridgeman, that bad art does more for the world than good art? Artists spend more of their lives…

— Brandon Sanderson

I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really…

— Robert Barry

College had a great deal to do with my development as a person. I don't know if I'd be the artist I…

— J. Cole

I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of…

— Yasumasa Morimura

With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes…

— Jonathan Culler

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

— Elizabeth Neel

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger

“I wish I could paint like Raphael," Lucio said. "I'd paint you! You should smile more often - it's like dawn breaking…

— Kate Forsyth

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

— Frances Stark

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money…

— Lady Gaga

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Love is The Highest Art Form, The Most Refined Artistic Expression. Love Charms Your Heart and Creates a Masterpiece.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I've had so many conversations with new artists trying to figure out their careers.

— Scott Borchetta

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

— Peter Porter

So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it.

— David Douglas Duncan

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre…

— Edith Evans

I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.

— Bryan Greenberg

The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

— Rudolf Arnheim

For you Cody(: (p.s. I wanted to show you my friend's artwork on my pencil case bahah!)

— Heatherr

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

— Prince Charles

You can't be an artist while you're producing, because you'll be over-critiquing the producer part.

— Valee

I have respect for the sport so I will contribute to the sport by encouraging artists .

— Ab-Soul

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

— Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men…

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to…

— Wassily Kandinsky

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

— John W. Gardner

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is…

— Marcel Duchamp

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

— Jerry Saltz

Like me, most of my fellow artists struggle within the confines of what is 'politically correct.'

— Bez