Artist Quotes · Page 273

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

— Joseph Conrad

I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is…

— Banks

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's…

— Ken Danby

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

— Jenova Chen

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects…

— Michael Ondaatje

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

— Joe Torre

I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement…

— Bryson Tiller

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to…

— Arthur Boyd

My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read…

— Roy Lichtenstein

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't…

— Leonard Nimoy

The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying…

— Tim Minear

“I know not why, but all the noblest arts hold in perfection but for a very little moment. They soon reach a…

— Samuel Butler

I think every artist that you like, or even artists that have defined their own times, they're definitely looking to the past…

— Tamaryn

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,…

— Richard Bausch

The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It…

— Harold Rosenberg

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!…

— Philip Roth

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you…

— Rokia Traore

I love when an artist can stand by themselves and play their guitar and hold a crowd, but I also love bells…

— Kelsea Ballerini

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

— Banksy

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

— James Whistler

“The art of the saints is the ability to draw good out of every situation, no matter how bitter or painful.”

— Marc Foley

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

— Oscar Wilde

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

— Moises Arias

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

— Marilynne Robinson

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

— Eugene Ionesco

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.

— Alexandra Stoddard

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

— Paul Cezanne

My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we…

— Grace Gummer

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

— Aya Cash

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

— Franz Kline

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

— Omari Hardwick

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon…

— Rudolph Valentino

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

— Criss Jami

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

— Boots Riley

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

— Gunter Grass

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

— George Michael

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

— Aristotle