Artist Quotes · Page 276

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

— Brad Holland

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

— Big Freedia

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.

— Osamu Dazai

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

— Madonna Ciccone

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

— Olivia Newton-John

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal…

— Georges Braque

“My Last Duchess That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a…

— Robert Browning

The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and…

— Hans Hofmann

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder…

— William Faulkner

Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's…

— Van Morrison

There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are…

— Paul Auster

“Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was…

— Blue Balliett

I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture…

— Barbara Kruger

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

— Jim Rowe

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

— Chris Martin

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

— Criss Jami

Sometimes as an artist you don't want to be an entertainer. You want to offend people and inspire them and that's not…

— Lacey Sturm

We do things the way we do them and we do them unashamedly. It's our art. If you don't like it, that's…

— Jim Root

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

— Donatella Versace

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

— Kate Millett

For me, one of the jobs of an artist is to try to see changes taking place.

— Trevor Paglen

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

— Joe Bradley

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

— Richard Clayderman

I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

— Daveed Diggs

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

— Paula Cole

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.

— Black Thought

“We always hide our souls whenever we create something that praises the heart.”

— Laura Chouette

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop…

— John Currin

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

— Henri Matisse

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves…

— Asger Jorn

“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”

— James Baldwin

“Everything we do, in art or in life, is the imperfect copy of what we thought of doing.”

— Fernando Pessoa

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

— Fernando Botero

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

“When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to…

— Ingo F. Walther

“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]”

— Miles J. Unger

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz