Artist Quotes · Page 278

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

A thousand painters can paint for a 1,000 years, but can't make a work of art as beautiful as you.

— Anonymous

The internet has really messed everyone up. It has its ups and downs, but for a music artist it's a killer.

— Ginuwine

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual…

— Ben Shahn

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

— Emile Zola

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

— Anton Chekhov

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

— Igor Babailov

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring

— Julie Walters

There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something…

— Tina Weymouth

Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the…

— Robert Grudin

I have met Mariah before and she's really cool and so funny. Everyone has been given the wrong impression of her, and…

— Janet Jackson

This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion…

— Henry Selick

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the…

— Gustav Klimt

There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the…

— Mark Tobey

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist.…

— Edward Albee

Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo…

— Xiaolu Guo

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

— Eugenio Montale

Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.

— Robert Christgau

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

— Damien Hirst

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows…

— Joss Whedon

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter…

— Romare Bearden

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

— Steven Pressfield

I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you…

— Jessie Mueller

When people try questioning my artistry or what it is that I do, it's because it doesn't look like everybody else's art.

— The-Dream

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

— Ted Lange

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

— Ann Mortifee

I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance.

— Matt Bomer

Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I…

— Sylvia Plath

I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on…

— Kalup Linzy

“Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.”

— Peter Adolphsen

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

— Henri Matisse

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in…

— E. M. Forster

I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.

— Ryan Tedder

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

— Eli Broad

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

— Nell Irvin Painter

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

— Henri Matisse

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

— Pablo Picasso

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky