Artist Quotes · Page 264

When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.

— Ben Eine

“Sorrow fades," he muttered as he retrieved the last fragment, "grief dies, but Art lives forever.”

— Kenyon Gambier

“I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.”

— César Vallejo

Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American…

— Willem de Kooning

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

— Paul Gauguin

My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a…

— Claude Monet

I want to see where and how far I can go as an artist. I look back and see what I've done,…

— Paul Weller

Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged…

— Cate Blanchett

No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long…

— Milton Resnick

If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have…

— Felicity Jones

“Kate had made both the environment and the body for him, and he liked the tranquil mood of the piece. There was…

— Greg Egan

“Dale Chihuly." She pulls out her phone and moves close to show me a picture of his work. "It's an eleven meter-long…

— Cath Crowley

I have a lot of respect for these rock photographers. You realize that some of them were really led into the inner…

— Mick Fleetwood

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

— Blixa Bargeld

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

— Friedrich Schiller

In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Anonymous

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose…

— Francis Bacon

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it…

— Ray Bradbury

The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.

— Willem de Kooning

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

— David Hockney

“Three erotic paintings by Isa - $ 20K; chasing said artist in Benz SLS Coupe - $ 195K; the look on her…

— Ella Dominguez

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

— Richard Thompson

I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.

— Glenn Ligon

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

— Odilon Redon

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

— Marcel Duchamp

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little…

— John Banville

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life...

— Robert Henri

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“As with any artist,I see my first piece of blank writing paper as the canvas on which I will create my next…

— Ernest Grant

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

— El Greco

To have a simultaneous global audience as an artist is more than you could ever hope for.

— Dee Rees

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

— Hans Hofmann

I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.

— Aaron Rose

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

— Emily Carr

It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that.

— Kenny G