Artist Quotes · Page 282

I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'

— Ronan Keating

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

— J. M. W. Turner

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

— Joseph Beuys

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this…

— Barry McGee

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

“what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art”

— Vladimir Nabokov

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

— John Marin

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

— Mary Quant

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people take what they see for…

— JR

Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where…

— Grant Morrison

There is a certain vulnerability to creating art and putting it out in the world for the first time, but again, there's…

— Phillipa Soo

I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or…

— Shawn Mendes

With Martha Stewart, the power of the brand, the power of television, taught me that if you can marry all those ingredients…

— Charles Koppelman

What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since…

— Lester Bangs

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with…

— Steve Prefontaine

It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something…

— Antony Gormley

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

— Robert Henri

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

— Anonymous

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

— Allen Sapp

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

— Willem de Kooning

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

— Rick Ross

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

— Joseph Campbell

What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and…

— Cliff Chiang

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by…

— Henri Matisse

Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives.

— Abbi Jacobson

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

— Jessica Sanchez

“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.”

— Amit Kalantri

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curve-ball.

— Anonymous

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of…

— Anish Kapoor

The art of tomorrow will be a collective treasure, or it will not be art at all.

— Victor Vasarely

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement…

— Henry Moore

I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time.

— Paul Kaye

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an…

— Robert Breault

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.

— Kanye West

“To be an artist today is such an act of faith: nothing can come back from it except the satisfaction of the…

— Truman Capote

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just…

— Eric Fischl

“The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.”

— Neville Weston

When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever.

— Luke James